{"id":92891,"date":"2021-06-26T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92891"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:36:29","slug":"normal-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/normal-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My goal was, simply, to be normal.<\/p>\n<p>Married with children,<br \/>\nthen easing into retirement<br \/>\nand grandparenting.<\/p>\n<p>Traveling now and then<br \/>\nto some interesting<br \/>\nor exotic place.<\/p>\n<p>A well-kept home,<br \/>\nshaded and landscaped.<br \/>\nA well-lived life,<br \/>\nsafe, loved, satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>But I have learned<br \/>\nthat vision of life is not normal, at all.<\/p>\n<p>Life is uncertain, messy,<br \/>\nsometimes cruel.<br \/>\nLife is joy and sorrow,<br \/>\ntriumph and failure,<br \/>\nanxiety and peace.<\/p>\n<p>Life doesn\u2019t settle for normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goal was, simply, to be normal. Married with children, then easing into retirement and grandparenting. Traveling now and then to some interesting or exotic place. A well-kept home, shaded and landscaped. A well-lived life, safe, loved, satisfied. But I have learned that vision of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92891","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92899,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92891\/revisions\/92899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}