{"id":130939,"date":"2023-09-02T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130939"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:35:02","slug":"nearer-2023poetrymarathon-prompthour5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/nearer-2023poetrymarathon-prompthour5\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearer #2023poetrymarathon #prompthour5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deep in the night I heard it ring<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The doorbell, soft and quiet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few nights later I heard it again<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Insistent, strident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The next time I went to the door<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peeped through the eyehole<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a dark empty landing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet again when I heard the bell<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I went and opened the door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looked around sleepily,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stood in the darkness and asked aloud<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Who are you, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>And what is it you want?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was no answer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last night there was a knock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On my bedroom door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in the night I heard it ring The doorbell, soft and quiet. A few nights later I heard it again Insistent, strident. The next time I went to the door Peeped through the eyehole At a dark empty landing. Yet again when I heard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5765,10,2901],"class_list":["post-130939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-poetry","tag-prompt5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130939","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\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131008,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130939\/revisions\/131008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}