{"id":10029,"date":"2015-06-13T17:27:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10029"},"modified":"2015-06-13T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:27:55","slug":"prompt-9poem-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/prompt-9poem-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 9\/Poem 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darkness<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve noticed during this marathon my poems are filled with darkness<br \/>\nHappy images do not avoid me, but darkness is easier to grasp<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve spent most of my life in darkness<br \/>\nI am a living breathing contradiction<br \/>\nInternally, I dwell with those who dress their pain in white face and black robes<br \/>\nI dwell with those who deny their pain through needles and alcohol<br \/>\nI dwell with the cutters and those in despair<br \/>\nExternally I am a force to be reckoned with<br \/>\nI bring happiness and light to those around me<br \/>\nMy sense of humor is like a ray of sun for some<br \/>\nA beacon of light guiding them through their trials<br \/>\nthey say the strongest ones are the ones who need people the most<br \/>\nWell maybe I need people<br \/>\nMaybe all I need to do is write<br \/>\nWrite out my sadness, my despair, my brokenness<br \/>\nWrite myself out of the darkness into the light<br \/>\nUse my gift as a therapeutic tactic<br \/>\nTo tell the truth on paper, through poetry, fiction, whatever<br \/>\nWrite myself into who I know I am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darkness I&#8217;ve noticed during this marathon my poems are filled with darkness Happy images do not avoid me, but darkness is easier to grasp I&#8217;ve spent most of my life in darkness I am a living breathing contradiction Internally, I dwell with those who dress&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10164,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions\/10164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}