{"id":87324,"date":"2021-06-26T07:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T11:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87324"},"modified":"2021-06-26T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T11:29:49","slug":"hello-poets-its-less-than-two-hours-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hello-poets-its-less-than-two-hours-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Poets; It&#8217;s Less Than Two Hours To Go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s me again, Ofuma Agali.<\/p>\n<p>I was here last year for the Full Marathon, but I signed off after Half. And that too was pretty rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>I had since gone ahead to plug myself back into the world of poetry. Prior to the 2020 Poetry Marathon, I had a published collection of poems, with the last poem in the collection written around 2008 and one last embellished one around 2014. And then, I had gone almost blank with creative writing, what with the other kinds of professional writing that was taking all of my time. When I came out of that lacuna, fiction came calling; poetry became hard, and the Poetry Half Marathon helped.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I am here again. I wish to do the Full. And to finish it. And I really want to do this, despite several odds.<\/p>\n<p>See you all soon and best wishes to you all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, It&#8217;s me again, Ofuma Agali. I was here last year for the Full Marathon, but I signed off after Half. And that too was pretty rewarding. I had since gone ahead to plug myself back into the world of poetry. Prior to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1389,"featured_media":87332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87334,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87324\/revisions\/87334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}