{"id":18887,"date":"2016-08-13T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18887"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:40:07","slug":"before-darkness-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before darkness creeps into the garden,<\/p>\n<p>Before the mosquitos begin to dine,<\/p>\n<p>We settle into our lounge chairs,<\/p>\n<p>To breathe and enjoy the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fragrant bouquets of summer,<\/p>\n<p>Mix with the nearby herbs.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds of children laughing,<\/p>\n<p>Playing undisturbed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leaf-filtered sunset hues,<\/p>\n<p>Cloudless blue above,<\/p>\n<p>Frame the guilded birds in flight,<\/p>\n<p>Singing songs of love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Entwining fingers, holding hands,<\/p>\n<p>Love connects and courses through.<\/p>\n<p>As the twilight turns into night,<\/p>\n<p>The day lives past its due.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before darkness creeps into the garden, Before the mosquitos begin to dine, We settle into our lounge chairs, To breathe and enjoy the time. &nbsp; Fragrant bouquets of summer, Mix with the nearby herbs. Sounds of children laughing, Playing undisturbed. &nbsp; Leaf-filtered sunset hues, Cloudless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[459,1157],"class_list":["post-18887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-hour-3-prompt","tag-poetrymarathon2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19353,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887\/revisions\/19353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}