{"id":97856,"date":"2021-06-26T21:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97856"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:17:05","slug":"pen-names-ode-to-our-quills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/pen-names-ode-to-our-quills\/","title":{"rendered":"Pen Names, Ode to Our Quills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pen Names, Ode to Our Quills<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people don\u2019t name their Quills.\u201d Dylan Ferrara<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPens captivate the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BIC, Pentel RSVP, Sharpie, Pilot, Crayola,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dry Erase, Papermate, Metallic Gel Roller,<\/p>\n<p>Montblanc, Cirrus, Stylus, Uni-Ball, Britebrand,<\/p>\n<p>Quill it\u2019s a brand., Executive Cirrus, Grafton Mini,<\/p>\n<p>Caran d\u2019 Ache, U Brands&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We name our muses<\/p>\n<p>so should we call out to our swords.<\/p>\n<p>The writing instruments<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>that connect us to each other,<\/p>\n<p>to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Not only our verses in poetry,<\/p>\n<p>but our letters handwritten<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Our first drafts<\/p>\n<p>revisions journeys and entries<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>to our final completions.<\/p>\n<p>We need to name all pens,<\/p>\n<p>odes to our dried out friends<\/p>\n<p>of the past.<\/p>\n<p>My editor calls her muse Harry.<\/p>\n<p>This pen\u2019s now called George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pen Names, Ode to Our Quills \u201cMost people don\u2019t name their Quills.\u201d Dylan Ferrara \u201cPens captivate the mind.\u201d BIC, Pentel RSVP, Sharpie, Pilot, Crayola,\u00a0 Dry Erase, Papermate, Metallic Gel Roller, Montblanc, Cirrus, Stylus, Uni-Ball, Britebrand, Quill it\u2019s a brand., Executive Cirrus, Grafton Mini, Caran d\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97856","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\/1461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97860,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97856\/revisions\/97860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}