{"id":142714,"date":"2023-09-03T07:14:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142714"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:14:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:14:32","slug":"the-second-last-hour-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-second-last-hour-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The second last (Hour 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone talks about the firsts or the lasts,<br \/>\nthe beginning or the ends,<br \/>\nbut what about just before it ends,<br \/>\nwhen sun and moon appear together in the sky,<br \/>\nIts not night yet,<br \/>\nneither a full sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the exam bell rings<br \/>\nyou are yet to write the last answer,<br \/>\nthere is still some time left,<br \/>\nno need to hold your breath.<\/p>\n<p>Just before walking the aisle,<br \/>\nstill holding your father&#8217;s hand,<br \/>\nthere still some while left,<br \/>\nbefore you get on with life.<\/p>\n<p>Before saying goodbye,<br \/>\nknowing its not the end,<br \/>\nthe last time, the last lines are special,<br \/>\nbut its the second lasts,<br \/>\njust before the time something changes,<br \/>\nwhich holds together,<br \/>\nuntil we meet next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone talks about the firsts or the lasts, the beginning or the ends, but what about just before it ends, when sun and moon appear together in the sky, Its not night yet, neither a full sunrise. Just before the exam bell rings you are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142714","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142790,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142714\/revisions\/142790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}