{"id":141451,"date":"2023-09-03T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141451"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:13:08","slug":"hour-21-poem-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-21-poem-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 21, Poem 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running through the empty streets<br \/>\nOn dark streets in empty night<br \/>\nSilence surrounds me like a shroud<\/p>\n<p>Nothing to see, just my own dissipating breath<br \/>\nI can only hear my own life signs<br \/>\nWaiting for them to fade away<\/p>\n<p>But in the darkness, something shines<br \/>\nAs the cloud shifts to reveal<br \/>\nThe stars and the moonlight<\/p>\n<p>And just the view of that round sky rock<br \/>\nDark in itself but still reflecting light<br \/>\nHas me stopping and just staring<\/p>\n<p>The halo around the moon reminding me<br \/>\nOf something long forgotten,<br \/>\nA promise that makes me move again<\/p>\n<p>And this time its not the darkness I see<br \/>\nThis time it&#8217;s the gentle moonlight comforting me<br \/>\nAs I, towards a new tomorrow, take off running. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running through the empty streets On dark streets in empty night Silence surrounds me like a shroud Nothing to see, just my own dissipating breath I can only hear my own life signs Waiting for them to fade away But in the darkness, something shines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141451","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141563,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141451\/revisions\/141563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}