{"id":88031,"date":"2021-06-26T09:47:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88031"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:29:38","slug":"88031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/88031\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aspirations<\/p>\n<p>I wake to a caramel macchiato day<br \/>\nsun broadcasting a gorgeous June morning<br \/>\nand I am ready to face what it gifts me.<\/p>\n<p>I avoid naysayers who convince themselves<br \/>\nthey can\u2019t do anything they want, can\u2019t try<br \/>\nto accomplish something sweet and special.<\/p>\n<p>Their vibes are toxic trash, contagious as<br \/>\na cold in kindergarten, and I\u2019m not one<br \/>\nto bring myself or anyone else down.<\/p>\n<p>I can. I will. I often do, and sometimes<br \/>\nI fail and though it stings like a needle<br \/>\nof reality, I am needful of the lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Get back up, try again, remember what<br \/>\nit was that didn\u2019t work, and right it; most<br \/>\nof the time, I succeed and I am grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I will accomplish something<br \/>\nI am proud of; today I will do something<br \/>\nfor someone else to help lift them up.<\/p>\n<p>Join me. Make this Saturday a day<br \/>\nburgeoning with glimmering hope<br \/>\nand sparkling possibilities,<\/p>\n<p>and if you need a good word, a hand up,<br \/>\na pat on the back, call me. I\u2019d love to<br \/>\nshare this captivating day with you.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 26, 2021 Hour 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspirations I wake to a caramel macchiato day sun broadcasting a gorgeous June morning and I am ready to face what it gifts me. I avoid naysayers who convince themselves they can\u2019t do anything they want, can\u2019t try to accomplish something sweet and special. Their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88811,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031\/revisions\/88811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}