{"id":140717,"date":"2023-09-03T03:38:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140717"},"modified":"2023-09-03T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:38:14","slug":"3-am-hour-prompt-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/3-am-hour-prompt-19\/","title":{"rendered":"3 am hour\/prompt #19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3am<\/strong><br \/>\nlight rain descends as night moves toward morning&#8217;s light.<br \/>\npoetry&#8217;s passion sits on my chest reminding me, like Robert Frost&#8217;s little horse,<br \/>\nI still have hours to go before I sleep. Sweet sleeping hounds keep me company,<br \/>\npoetry family check&#8217;s in on by email and marathon comrades keep posting.<\/p>\n<p>the night is very still, while loud and irritating electric hissing sounds fill the air. I chose<br \/>\nthis journey and revel in its labyrinth of complexity as the clock ticks. the hour that seemed not long enough to complete the task at hand, now stretches languidly onward. I beseech<br \/>\nthe next prompt, the next hour, please claim me before sleep over-rides the body!<\/p>\n<p>poetic justice, recompense for my confident commitment to word and time<br \/>\nO&#8217; foolish poet, like mystics and seekers throughout millennium, I drink the elixir<br \/>\nof intoxicating phrases seeking solace in their rhyme and comfort from their mystery.<br \/>\nI close my eyes, a brief respite, to begin the journey again into it&#8217;s final hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3am light rain descends as night moves toward morning&#8217;s light. poetry&#8217;s passion sits on my chest reminding me, like Robert Frost&#8217;s little horse, I still have hours to go before I sleep. Sweet sleeping hounds keep me company, poetry family check&#8217;s in on by email&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140717","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\/2907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140725,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140717\/revisions\/140725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}