{"id":953,"date":"2024-10-15T21:57:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T04:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/?p=953"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:57:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T04:57:22","slug":"not-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2024\/10\/15\/not-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">This blog has three post categories: <em>poetry<\/em>, <em>fiction<\/em>, and <em>rant<\/em>. It&#8217;s been quite a while since I last used <em>poetry<\/em> or <em>fiction<\/em>. I once considered myself a potential serious writer of poetry\/fiction, but eventually I realized that was not the direction my life was taking. After all, try as I might, I never could come up with a good plot for a story\u2014or even a full plot, for that matter. And poetry&#8230; it just fizzed out. Unfortunately, I also stopped ranting, which is always good linguistic practice. I did not view it that way back then, as I took my English proficiency for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the briefest moment, after writing that last sentence, I wondered if I should try my hand at poetry again. Most definitely not. The sensibility, if I ever had any, has disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has three post categories: poetry, fiction, and rant. It&#8217;s been quite a while since I last used poetry or fiction. I once considered myself a potential serious writer of poetry\/fiction, but eventually I realized that was not the direction my life was taking. After all, try as I might, I never could come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}