{"id":118434,"date":"2022-06-26T00:31:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118434"},"modified":"2022-06-26T01:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:05:23","slug":"almost-midnight-hour-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/almost-midnight-hour-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Midnight &#8211; Hour Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hour is getting later<br \/>\nAnd my head begins to spin<br \/>\nBut I will keep on writing<br \/>\nExhaustion will not win<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pushing towards the finish<br \/>\nInching closer every hour<br \/>\nWith coffee, I will make it<br \/>\nI shall harbor the power<\/p>\n<p>I am feeling a twinge of pain<br \/>\nMy head and back both hurt<br \/>\nBut I know I&#8217;m moments away<br \/>\nFrom a brain fueled writing spurt<br \/>\nThe writing block will leave me soon<br \/>\nAnd I will trudge ahead<br \/>\nIt won&#8217;t be too much longer<br \/>\nBefore I&#8217;m nestled in bed<\/p>\n<p>For now, I must keep writing<br \/>\nThese poems won&#8217;t write themselves<br \/>\nGetting them out right now is better<br \/>\nThan words being top shelf<br \/>\nMy focus is now foggy<br \/>\nBut enough of my rhyme<br \/>\nI&#8217;m now left here to question<br \/>\nDo you happen to know the time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hour is getting later And my head begins to spin But I will keep on writing Exhaustion will not win I&#8217;m pushing towards the finish Inching closer every hour With coffee, I will make it I shall harbor the power I am feeling a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[4906,4880,1806,3456,5435,5434,392],"class_list":["post-118434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2022fullmarathon","tag-2022-poetry-marathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-poetry-marathon-inspired-poems","tag-time-poems","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118434","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118474,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118434\/revisions\/118474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}