{"id":95403,"date":"2021-06-26T18:21:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95403"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:21:42","slug":"how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how\/","title":{"rendered":"How?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It\u2019s not two roads.<\/div>\n<div>It\u2019s not this or that \u2014<\/div>\n<div>But an open field with no set path at all.<\/div>\n<div>So much possibility, too much to go wrong.<\/div>\n<div>I don\u2019t see the apple orchard up ahead or the elm grove to the right or a giant oak to the left.<\/div>\n<div>I only see the slight decline in the middle of the clearing, like a valley<\/div>\n<div>And remember the news said there\u2019s a possibility of rain storms tonight<\/div>\n<div>Which means there could be flash floods and that means<\/div>\n<div>There\u2019ll be a pool of water to drown me.<\/div>\n<div>How do other people trick their brains?<\/div>\n<div>Tell themselves the decline is not that prominent?<\/div>\n<div>That I can take my time?<\/div>\n<div>Find my own journey?<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">How?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not two roads. It\u2019s not this or that \u2014 But an open field with no set path at all. So much possibility, too much to go wrong. I don\u2019t see the apple orchard up ahead or the elm grove to the right or a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95403","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\/1550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95425,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95403\/revisions\/95425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}