{"id":143872,"date":"2023-09-03T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143872"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:53:12","slug":"hour-twenty-four-hoped-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-twenty-four-hoped-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty-four: Hoped For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-143345 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wonderlane-_rmULTYorYQ-unsplash-1022x1536-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wonderlane-_rmULTYorYQ-unsplash-1022x1536-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wonderlane-_rmULTYorYQ-unsplash-1022x1536-1-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wonderlane-_rmULTYorYQ-unsplash-1022x1536-1-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wonderlane-_rmULTYorYQ-unsplash-1022x1536-1.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is that bright light bursting through the dark forest<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The light I prayed for to lead me out of my morass<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is it the light at the end of a dark tunnel,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The proverbial train rushing to end my suffering forever<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are its beams burning down the darkness<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leaving me trapped inside to be consumed by<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smoke and flames<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are they a stairway to the light source<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A way out and a way to enter<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paradise<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do I get to choose or have I<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Been chosen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is that bright light bursting through the dark forest The light I prayed for to lead me out of my morass Or Is it the light at the end of a dark tunnel, The proverbial train rushing to end my suffering forever &nbsp; Are its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5783],"class_list":["post-143872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-marathon2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143872","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143905,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143872\/revisions\/143905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}