{"id":18985,"date":"2016-08-13T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18985"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:13:17","slug":"3-before-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/3-before-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"3 &#8211; Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lifetime of thoughts happens<br \/>\nIn the minutes, sometimes hours<br \/>\nBefore I close my eyes<\/p>\n<p>The worlds that never were,<br \/>\nBut might be &#8211; if I write them down<br \/>\nThe morning after, or even now<br \/>\nIf I reach for the notebook by the bed<\/p>\n<p>The things I never said,<br \/>\nAnd never will, the responses<br \/>\nTo things both happened and wished,<br \/>\nOr dreaded, but always imagined.<br \/>\nThe scripts we prepare for,<br \/>\nThat never play out<\/p>\n<p>But the wildest of thoughts<br \/>\nThe best of ideas<br \/>\nWill never be written,<br \/>\nWill not be remembered<br \/>\nAs they pass in those final moments<br \/>\nJust before drifting away<br \/>\nBefore the blackout of sleep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lifetime of thoughts happens In the minutes, sometimes hours Before I close my eyes The worlds that never were, But might be &#8211; if I write them down The morning after, or even now If I reach for the notebook by the bed The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[1330,1328,1329,57,375,696],"class_list":["post-18985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-before-falling-asleep","tag-darkness","tag-ideas","tag-night","tag-sleep","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985","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=18985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19058,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985\/revisions\/19058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}