{"id":1189,"date":"2014-08-23T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2014-08-23T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:06:24","slug":"transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tides of gray wax in the purple blackness of the night,<br \/>\nO sun, where art thou in this gloom?<br \/>\nA moment of hush, as the denizens wait for the light,<br \/>\nAnticipation lies thick in this room.<\/p>\n<p>Slips the dreams into their cocoon,<br \/>\nTo come again, or perhaps not again.<br \/>\nThese manic plays end so soon.<br \/>\nNo final act is played nor seen.<\/p>\n<p>The hush breaks now, a bird in song<br \/>\nSerenades the coming dawn.<br \/>\nA zephyr carries the melody along,<br \/>\nTo stifle my awakening yawn.<\/p>\n<p>I rise, I turn, feet settling on the floor.<br \/>\nAnd enter the day through it&#8217;s opening door.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2014 D. Edward Croy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tides of gray wax in the purple blackness of the night, O sun, where art thou in this gloom? A moment of hush, as the denizens wait for the light, Anticipation lies thick in this room. Slips the dreams into their cocoon, To come again,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}