{"id":90732,"date":"2021-06-26T12:47:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90732"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:50:01","slug":"to-quit-or-not-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/to-quit-or-not-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"To Quit&#8211;or Not to Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, by Jenny Lawson, gifted to me by HL Contreras, also an author.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Because quitting might be easier, but it won\u2019t be <strong>better<\/strong><\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t be better, I tell myself again,<\/p>\n<p>as I pour the diet dressing\u2014and ignore the ice cream cake.<\/p>\n<p>It might be easier, I remind myself,<\/p>\n<p>pedaling past the point of sweat\u2014for another 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing will taste as good as healthy feels.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing will feel as good as buying smaller clothes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t be better, my inner voice chides,<\/p>\n<p>As I edit one more time\u2014and kill off \u2018my darlings\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It might be easier, I remind myself,<\/p>\n<p>Finding just the right word\u2014and birthing a line that says more with less.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing will read as good as well-written.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing will feel as good as well-read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t be better, wanting to quit,<\/p>\n<p>As I keep weeding the flower bed\u2014making room for new roots.<\/p>\n<p>It might be easier, but\u2026<\/p>\n<p>ignoring the lawnmonster\u2014leaving the meadow for the pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing will bloom without nurturing.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is nurtured without effort.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the whispers.<\/p>\n<p>Better is better.<\/p>\n<p>Quitting is not easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, by Jenny Lawson, gifted to me by HL Contreras, also an author. \u201cBecause quitting might be easier, but it won\u2019t be better.\u201d &nbsp; It won\u2019t be better, I tell myself again, as I pour the diet dressing\u2014and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90732","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90773,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90732\/revisions\/90773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}