{"id":122519,"date":"2022-06-26T08:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=122519"},"modified":"2022-06-27T08:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:08:55","slug":"crash-course-hour-twenty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/crash-course-hour-twenty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision Course, Hour Twenty-Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collision Course<\/p>\n<p>Sleep in the beginning<br \/>\nof this yearly adventure<br \/>\nflirtatiously flitted<br \/>\naround the periphery<br \/>\nof consciousness,<br \/>\nnot quite<br \/>\nstepping into view.<\/p>\n<p>Now, near the end,<br \/>\nsleep collides<br \/>\nwith my eyes,<br \/>\nforcing blackout periods<br \/>\nfrom which I startle<br \/>\nand jump mid word,<br \/>\na deer fleeing the hunt,<br \/>\nan involuntary response<br \/>\nto bone deep exhaustion<br \/>\nwhose only remedy now<br \/>\nis sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collision Course Sleep in the beginning of this yearly adventure flirtatiously flitted around the periphery of consciousness, not quite stepping into view. Now, near the end, sleep collides with my eyes, forcing blackout periods from which I startle and jump mid word, a deer fleeing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122519","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123363,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122519\/revisions\/123363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}