{"id":110167,"date":"2022-06-25T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110167"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:18:11","slug":"hour-5-for-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-5-for-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5: For Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When vines took over<br \/>\nEverything stopped<br \/>\nMoving, breathing, existing<br \/>\nOnly the strangling pain<br \/>\nThe suffocation lingered in the air<br \/>\nDarkness descended<br \/>\nOn eyes, soul, life<br \/>\nWithout a shred of light<br \/>\nAnd no struggle whatsoever<br \/>\nCould unbind, unravel<br \/>\nThe vines encircling the heart<br \/>\nIn a vice like grip<br \/>\nUntil, reaching out<br \/>\nA tiny hand in the dark<br \/>\nPushed against the window<br \/>\nTo outside, to remembrance, to freedom<br \/>\nAnd just a sight of that<br \/>\nLimitless eternity was enough<br \/>\nTo tell the forgotten heart<br \/>\nThe vines aren&#8217;t where you belong<br \/>\nAren&#8217;t your happiness<br \/>\nAnd should you choose to fly<br \/>\nWings await you to take off<br \/>\nTowards the infinite sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When vines took over Everything stopped Moving, breathing, existing Only the strangling pain The suffocation lingered in the air Darkness descended On eyes, soul, life Without a shred of light And no struggle whatsoever Could unbind, unravel The vines encircling the heart In a vice&#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-110167","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\/110167","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=110167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110203,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110167\/revisions\/110203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}