{"id":14237,"date":"2015-06-14T08:22:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=14237"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:22:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:22:43","slug":"24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/","title":{"rendered":"24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">I had a friend<br \/>\nwho used to say<br \/>\nthat sleep is for the weak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I guess I&#8217;m strong,<br \/>\nas it never comes<br \/>\neasily to me,<br \/>\neven when it should.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s a guest that&#8217;s<br \/>\noften easy to avoid<br \/>\nand never catches me<br \/>\noff guard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Today I hope<br \/>\nfor dreamless sleep,<br \/>\nfor only then<br \/>\nI truly rest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">As dreams are often<br \/>\nquite alive<br \/>\nand full of colour<br \/>\nin my nights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14254\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sleep-223x300.jpeg\" alt=\"sleep\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sleep-223x300.jpeg 223w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sleep.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a friend who used to say that sleep is for the weak. I guess I&#8217;m strong, as it never comes easily to me, even when it should. It&#8217;s a guest that&#8217;s often easy to avoid and never catches me off guard. Today I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-14237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237","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\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14256,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237\/revisions\/14256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}