{"id":126981,"date":"2023-09-02T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126981"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:19:18","slug":"refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refuge<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Darkness surrounds me.<\/p>\n<p>No moon or stars to guide me.<\/p>\n<p>I am lost with no hope.<\/p>\n<p>The path is narrow and the journey long.<\/p>\n<p>Perils and predators lurk in the black forest.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of my gloom, I stumble into a clearing.<\/p>\n<p>A warm light beckons me.<\/p>\n<p>A comfortable cabin awaits me.<\/p>\n<p>My steps quicken to reach the door.<\/p>\n<p>A rush of restored hope wells up within me.<\/p>\n<p>I am safe at last.<\/p>\n<p>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126944\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439.jpeg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refuge &nbsp; &nbsp; Darkness surrounds me. No moon or stars to guide me. I am lost with no hope. The path is narrow and the journey long. Perils and predators lurk in the black forest. In the midst of my gloom, I stumble into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981","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\/2886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127000,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981\/revisions\/127000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}