{"id":126879,"date":"2023-09-02T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126879"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:44:58","slug":"126879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/126879\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dark firs and spruces<\/p>\n<p>fall in order down the hill<\/p>\n<p>and drape the checkpoint<\/p>\n<p>in mute darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Mists roll desolate,<\/p>\n<p>hanging,<\/p>\n<p>within one\u2019s touch<\/p>\n<p>floodlit by a single beam,<\/p>\n<p>which lights benighted borderlands,<\/p>\n<p>tempting new beginnings<\/p>\n<p>far from the calm comforts of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Invitation or reprimand?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Author: Jane Eckford<\/p>\n<p>2nd September 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark firs and spruces fall in order down the hill and drape the checkpoint in mute darkness. Mists roll desolate, hanging, within one\u2019s touch floodlit by a single beam, which lights benighted borderlands, tempting new beginnings far from the calm comforts of the past. Invitation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5763,2137,680,1628],"class_list":["post-126879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-global","tag-hour1","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126879","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\/5292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131175,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126879\/revisions\/131175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}