{"id":128627,"date":"2023-09-02T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128627"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:06:38","slug":"the-blackest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-blackest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The blackest day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it begins.<\/p>\n<p>Sun comes up alongside the blue.<\/p>\n<p>as mortality tries to force itself on you.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know why;<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t know when.<\/p>\n<p>We come back to ourselves<\/p>\n<p>&amp; then<\/p>\n<p>wonder what comes next.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do we waste away in margaritville for the foreseeable future<\/p>\n<p>or let it waste away in us?<\/p>\n<p>When all is said &amp; done, you can&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>help but wonder what was all this fuss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just the universe<\/p>\n<p>trying to have a good day<\/p>\n<p>or maybe it&#8217;s the rest of us<\/p>\n<p>trying to find a way<\/p>\n<p>but i think we owe it to ourselves<\/p>\n<p>to see what it has to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it begins. Sun comes up alongside the blue. as mortality tries to force itself on you. Don&#8217;t know why; don&#8217;t know when. We come back to ourselves &amp; then wonder what comes next. &nbsp; Do we waste away in margaritville for the foreseeable future&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128627","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\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128724,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128627\/revisions\/128724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}