{"id":101130,"date":"2021-06-27T04:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101130"},"modified":"2021-06-27T04:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:27:23","slug":"hour-twenty-walking-at-night-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-twenty-walking-at-night-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty, Walking at Night Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Midnight<\/p>\n<p>Patsy Cline sang part of the story,<br \/>\nlonging welling up from a lovelorn soul<br \/>\nand yearning to connect.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Clapton related yet another side,<br \/>\nthe wildness of the hellraiser within letting loose<br \/>\nand abandoning all control.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there&#8217;s more, so much more,<br \/>\nto entering the wild night, beginning as human<br \/>\nand ending as another animal.<\/p>\n<p>We strip away the extraneous and become primal<br \/>\nwhen we walk the world after midnight,<br \/>\nsound and scent then more reliable than sight.<\/p>\n<p>The rhythm of bootheels clocking down the road<br \/>\nbecomes syncopated with a heightened heartbeat,<br \/>\nnostrils flaring to breathe deep scent released by night alone.<\/p>\n<p>We are truer versions of ourselves as we feel our way<br \/>\nthrough the dark, only to feel the sweet relief<br \/>\nof being welcomed by the beckoning lights of home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Midnight Patsy Cline sang part of the story, longing welling up from a lovelorn soul and yearning to connect. Eric Clapton related yet another side, the wildness of the hellraiser within letting loose and abandoning all control. Yet there&#8217;s more, so much more, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101130","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101184,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101130\/revisions\/101184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}