{"id":2674,"date":"2025-07-07T08:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/?page_id=2674"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:57:56","slug":"jim-ditto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/jim-ditto\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ditto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim is an artist in several respects and has been writing poetry since early childhood, along with drawing, painting, and performing on stage since his teenage years. A Marine Corps veteran, holder of multiple degrees, world traveler, and long-time visitor to the Methow Valley where his in-laws have lived for generations, he moved to Twisp in 2022. Within the first year he accumulated a series of more than 366 poems, which he continues to refine and share with the Confluence Poets. He draws inspiration from everywhere and loves to play with language as much as he appreciates using the freedom poetry gives to turn bitter struggles into sources of inspiration and beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1345\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jim.jpg?fit=1024%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jim.jpg?w=1345&amp;ssl=1 1345w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jim.jpg?resize=300%2C106&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jim.jpg?resize=1024%2C360&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jim.jpg?resize=768%2C270&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jim.jpg?resize=150%2C53&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim is an artist in several respects and has been writing poetry since early childhood, along with drawing, painting, and performing on stage since his teenage years. A Marine Corps veteran, holder of multiple degrees, world traveler, and long-time visitor to the Methow Valley where his in-laws have lived for generations, he moved to Twisp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2674","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2674\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}