{"id":89282,"date":"2021-06-26T11:07:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89282"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:07:36","slug":"center-stage-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/center-stage-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Center Stage &#8211; hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">If you could stand at center stage<br \/>\nBetween your future and your past<br \/>\nIf you could see both sides at once<br \/>\nWould you take a different path?<br \/>\nAnd if you took a different path<br \/>\nJust how much would you change?<br \/>\nWhat if you never made it<br \/>\nTo the center of the stage?<br \/>\nWhat if, on that different path<br \/>\nThe footlights all went dark<br \/>\nYour curtain call came early<br \/>\nAnd you never met your mark?<br \/>\nOr would you just keep walking<br \/>\nThe same path you&#8217;ve been on?<br \/>\nThat made you who you are today<br \/>\nNo matter what went wrong?<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s wisdom in both answers<br \/>\nBut tell you this, I will<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re never gonna find them<br \/>\nIf you just keep standing still.<br \/>\n~Mandy Kocsis\u00a92021~<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-89273\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20210626-1101312-300x164.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20210626-1101312-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20210626-1101312-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20210626-1101312.png 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you could stand at center stage Between your future and your past If you could see both sides at once Would you take a different path? And if you took a different path Just how much would you change? What if you never made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4101,4199],"class_list":["post-89282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-hour2-mandysland-centerstage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89282","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\/1516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89327,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89282\/revisions\/89327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}