{"id":94938,"date":"2021-06-26T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94938"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:47:09","slug":"to-thine-own-self-be-true-prompt-from-common-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/to-thine-own-self-be-true-prompt-from-common-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"To thine own self be true (prompt from common saying)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing about the pandemic was<br \/>\nthat I spent a lot of time with myself.<br \/>\nToo often over the decades, I realized,<br \/>\nI tried to fit in and<br \/>\nit didn\u2019t work,<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t fit,<br \/>\nand I felt I had failed.<br \/>\nNow I\u2019m embracing the weird.<br \/>\nOK, I don\u2019t fit!<br \/>\nI like animals more than people<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather be on a nature trail than in the office<br \/>\nI don\u2019t like parties and small talk and fashion.<br \/>\nI like writers and artists, art and writing.<br \/>\nAnd that\u2019s OK.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve decided to keep me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing about the pandemic was that I spent a lot of time with myself. Too often over the decades, I realized, I tried to fit in and it didn\u2019t work, I didn\u2019t fit, and I felt I had failed. Now I\u2019m embracing the weird&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94938","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94957,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94938\/revisions\/94957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}