{"id":4621,"date":"2021-06-13T20:39:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2021-06-13T20:40:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:40:31","slug":"starting-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"Starting Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starting Over <\/em>was the theme of this year&#8217;s <em>Friends of the West Roxbury Library Poetry Contest.\u00a0<\/em> Here&#8217;s my contribution that won honorable mention for the second year in a row!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Starting Over<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Starting over<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>whether<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I like it<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>or not\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>but at least<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>not at<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>the beginning<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>back now<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>to the new-familiar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>to give another go<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>but friends are missing<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I begin again<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>after an amnesiac year<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>not sure just when<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>is when<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>or even<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>now<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Copyright 2021 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starting Over was the theme of this year&#8217;s Friends of the West Roxbury Library Poetry Contest.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my contribution that won honorable mention for the second year in a row!!! &nbsp; Starting Over &nbsp; Starting over whether I like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4625,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}