{"id":131211,"date":"2023-09-02T14:05:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131211"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:40:35","slug":"reading-at-three-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/reading-at-three-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading at Three in the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty pages left?<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;s already gotten the girl.<br \/>\nHis relationship with his brothers<br \/>\nSeems to be on the path of mending.<br \/>\nWhat else could possibly happen?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already three in the morning.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve nowhere to be today.<br \/>\nMy eyes are burning.<br \/>\nI really should get some sleep.<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s thirty pages left<br \/>\nAnd something isn&#8217;t quite right.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a few more pages<br \/>\nJust enough to ease the unsettling<br \/>\nFeeling I have in my stomach.<br \/>\nSurely this author wouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nLet <em>THAT<\/em> happen.<br \/>\nShe wouldn&#8217;t break that character so completely,<br \/>\nNot after all he&#8217;s been through already.<\/p>\n<p>A few more pages isn&#8217;t enough,<br \/>\nI have to keep reading.<br \/>\nI have to know what happens.<br \/>\nI have to know he&#8217;s going to be okay.<br \/>\nI have to know, and I have to know NOW.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no, please dear author<br \/>\nTell me you didn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nTell me she isn&#8217;t dead or dying.<br \/>\nIt will destroy him,<br \/>\nLosing that light from his life.<\/p>\n<p>Tears are forming in my eyes.<br \/>\nDo I really want to keep reading?<br \/>\nI have to.  I have to know.<\/p>\n<p>A release of breath.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s fine, everyone is fine.<br \/>\nThey are more than fine in fact.<br \/>\nThe story will have a happy ending after all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been so long<br \/>\nSince I read a book<br \/>\nThat kept me up so late.<br \/>\nI am exhausted<br \/>\nFrom all the emotional bouncing around.<br \/>\nBut oh, what a wonderful feeling<br \/>\nTo be reading at three in the morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty pages left? But he&#8217;s already gotten the girl. His relationship with his brothers Seems to be on the path of mending. What else could possibly happen? It&#8217;s already three in the morning. I&#8217;ve nowhere to be today. My eyes are burning. I really should&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131211","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\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132423,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131211\/revisions\/132423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}