{"id":107569,"date":"2022-06-25T10:13:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107569"},"modified":"2022-07-04T23:29:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T03:29:32","slug":"hour-2-the-darkest-evening-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-2-the-darkest-evening-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2: The Darkest Evening of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Title line taken from Robert Frost&#8217;s poem &#8220;Stopping by Woods&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>The darkest evening of the year<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t fall in December<br \/>\nOr even one of the colder months<br \/>\nNo, it came in suddenly<br \/>\nOne bright May day<br \/>\nStricken with grief and loss<\/p>\n<p>The darkest evening of the year<br \/>\nHas nothing to do with sun or weather<br \/>\nIt has nothing to do with presence of light<br \/>\nJust the absence of hope<br \/>\nAnd life and dreams<br \/>\nAnd you and me <\/p>\n<p>The darkest evening of the year<br \/>\nIs the one where we lost<br \/>\nOur home, our safety, our peace<br \/>\nThe one where I lost you<br \/>\nThe one where you lost me<br \/>\nAnd we both lost a part of ourselves<\/p>\n<p>The darkest evening of the year<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t fall in dreary December<br \/>\nBut on a bright May day<br \/>\nFull of warmth and false sense of comfort<br \/>\nThat one bright May Day<br \/>\nWhen the light of love disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Title line taken from Robert Frost&#8217;s poem &#8220;Stopping by Woods&#8221;) The darkest evening of the year Didn&#8217;t fall in December Or even one of the colder months No, it came in suddenly One bright May day Stricken with grief and loss The darkest evening of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107569","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124560,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107569\/revisions\/124560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}