{"id":140886,"date":"2023-09-03T03:57:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140886"},"modified":"2023-09-03T03:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:57:06","slug":"hour-18-dear-edgar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-18-dear-edgar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18: Dear Edgar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Dearest Edgar,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What twisted thoughts corrupt your mind?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What ails your soul, also ails mine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haunted voices fill your head<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visions of the macabre, dance of the dead<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your heart yearns for love long lost<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I, too, have felt its cost<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kindred spirits, I feel your pain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grief that renders you insane<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Desiring what is nevermore<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quoth the raven above your door<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An unkindness of ravens echoing the cries<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the sound of when true love dies<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dearest Edgar, What twisted thoughts corrupt your mind? What ails your soul, also ails mine Haunted voices fill your head Visions of the macabre, dance of the dead Your heart yearns for love long lost I, too, have felt its cost Kindred spirits, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140886","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\/2454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140892,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140886\/revisions\/140892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}