{"id":112828,"date":"2022-06-25T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112828"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:40:11","slug":"hour-6-bleak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-6-bleak\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7 (Bleak)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6087388-Arthur-Golden-Quote-Nothing-is-as-bleak-as-the-future-except-the-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6087388-Arthur-Golden-Quote-Nothing-is-as-bleak-as-the-future-except-the-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6087388-Arthur-Golden-Quote-Nothing-is-as-bleak-as-the-future-except-the-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6087388-Arthur-Golden-Quote-Nothing-is-as-bleak-as-the-future-except-the-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6087388-Arthur-Golden-Quote-Nothing-is-as-bleak-as-the-future-except-the-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6087388-Arthur-Golden-Quote-Nothing-is-as-bleak-as-the-future-except-the-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lights are swirling<br \/>\nRound and round inside my head<br \/>\nThe thoughts and darkness<br \/>\nUp my once retired head<\/p>\n<p>Sorting through the garbage<br \/>\nAll the rubbish left behind<br \/>\nbetter poetry writing<br \/>\nIs the best thing for me<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ve been feeling<br \/>\nsightly unlike myself<br \/>\nSome days my mind is screaming<br \/>\nWith images from my past<\/p>\n<p>Depression is trying to come<br \/>\nBut when I write at my best<br \/>\nThe thoughts, the dreams<br \/>\nThe feelings, the uneasiness<\/p>\n<p>Discarding the old images of my past<br \/>\nMaybe just the thing I need<br \/>\nCause lately I&#8217;ve been dreaming<br \/>\nAnd the pictures are looking bleak&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright(c)2022 Roxann Lawrence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lights are swirling Round and round inside my head The thoughts and darkness Up my once retired head Sorting through the garbage All the rubbish left behind better poetry writing Is the best thing for me Today I&#8217;ve been feeling sightly unlike myself Some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112828","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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113134,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112828\/revisions\/113134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}