{"id":19000,"date":"2016-08-13T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19000"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:37:04","slug":"3-before-darkness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/3-before-darkness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#3 Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before darkness is best time to walk<\/p>\n<p>The sun is so low<\/p>\n<p>the light does not\u00a0beat down on you,<\/p>\n<p>tiring you before you start.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0the sun sets, the earth holds all the heat of the day.<\/p>\n<p>But carry a sweater,<\/p>\n<p>High, dry air cools fast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before darkness comes,<\/p>\n<p>find a warm boulder to sit on<\/p>\n<p>or stretch out on<\/p>\n<p>and watch the sky show begin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just before darkness,<\/p>\n<p>close your eyes to\u00a0feel the earth turning.<\/p>\n<p>The sky darkens and stars<\/p>\n<p>on top of stars<\/p>\n<p>and more stars<\/p>\n<p>begin to appear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember their names?<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t, make up your own.<\/p>\n<p>You watched their birth<\/p>\n<p>just before darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before darkness is best time to walk The sun is so low the light does not\u00a0beat down on you, tiring you before you start. &nbsp; As\u00a0the sun sets, the earth holds all the heat of the day. But carry a sweater, High, dry air&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19000","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\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19327,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19000\/revisions\/19327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}