{"id":172,"date":"2020-03-01T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2020-03-01T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:19:29","slug":"the-poet-comes-before-the-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/01\/the-poet-comes-before-the-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The poet comes before the poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I&#8217;m an entrepreneur. I&#8217;m not saying that just because I&#8217;m building a business and have things for sale, I&#8217;m saying that because I think that that\u2019s what I am, in my nature. I think I do my best work as an independent business person rather than as part of an established business. This has been hard for me to figure out because I have spent most of my working years working for other people and not having my own business. And because having your own business is hard. But I think some things are in people\u2019s nature. The person who writes a poem is a poet before they write any poems. Only poets write poems.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are you? If you&#8217;re a poet, get your poems out.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t die with your music still in you.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2015Wayne W. Dyer<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m an entrepreneur. I&#8217;m not saying that just because I&#8217;m building a business and have things for sale, I&#8217;m saying that because I think that that\u2019s what I am, in my nature. I think I do my best work as an independent business person rather than as part of an established business. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/01\/the-poet-comes-before-the-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The poet comes before the poem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}