{"id":117819,"date":"2022-06-25T23:18:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117819"},"modified":"2022-06-25T23:18:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:18:53","slug":"midnight-poet-a-gigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/midnight-poet-a-gigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Poet, a gigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Midnight Poet<\/strong>, a gigan<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writing poems long into the night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Computer on my lap, beer in my hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m quite sure I\u2019m a frightening sight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everything I write clearly hasn\u2019t been planned<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I read the words on the page and they\u2019re so bland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prompts fly at me at a record pace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can barely keep all my thoughts in one place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The coffee is brewing upon the stove.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I hope the caffeine unlocks my words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writing poems long into the night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prompts fly at me at a record pace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not wanting to quit but craving sleep<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">My head nods and bobs all over the place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">My body\u2019s shutting down into a mushy heap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As my eyes struggle to stay awake,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I gobble down another piece of cheesecake and fight on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midnight Poet, a gigan Writing poems long into the night. Computer on my lap, beer in my hand. I\u2019m quite sure I\u2019m a frightening sight. Everything I write clearly hasn\u2019t been planned I read the words on the page and they\u2019re so bland. Prompts fly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117819","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\/1448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117834,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117819\/revisions\/117834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}