{"id":972,"date":"2025-10-31T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:03:51","slug":"reflecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks for coming with me on that poetry journey last month. This is just a few paragraphs about how I&#8217;m feeling about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First off, I had fun. It was enjoyable stretching writing muscles in different ways. Second off, I&#8217;m pretty glad it&#8217;s over. *deletes reminder timer on my phone with a sigh of relief* <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That  being said, it proves to me that even when I&#8217;m busy (<em>man<\/em> has this month been busy) I can still find maybe half an hour to work on writing. I can do it, I just need to make myself reach for that instead of something else. It also proves to me that I can wring something creative out of my brain even when it&#8217;s feeling spent. They&#8217;re good things to learn, even if I might feel grumpy about it when I&#8217;m drained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being said, it also proves to me there are times when my brain&#8217;s been wrung dry. BUT hope is not lost because a good night&#8217;s sleep is a good restorative so maybe I should take it easy on myself those days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of all, though, it shows me there&#8217;s a lot out there to still learn and do and it&#8217;s nice to find new things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll have an index of the month&#8217;s poems up here soon; hope you all enjoyed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Intellectual Property of Elizabeth Doman<br>Feel free to share via link<br>Do not copy to other websites or skim for AI training<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for coming with me on that poetry journey last month. This is just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[819,820,584,82,155,818,769],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-posts","tag-creative","tag-energy","tag-october","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-reflecting","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}