{"id":19029,"date":"2016-08-13T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19029"},"modified":"2016-08-15T21:57:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T01:57:27","slug":"before-darkness-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness overtakes us<br \/>\nwe must walk toward the LIGHT<br \/>\nThe challenge is to know the TRUTH<br \/>\nand seek to do what&#8217;s right<\/p>\n<p>The world is in a struggle<br \/>\nand humankind needs hope<br \/>\nBefore Darkness does destroy us<br \/>\nwe must hold on to the &#8220;Rope&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The ONE who knows the ending<br \/>\nfrom the day it all began<br \/>\nBefore Darkness He was working<br \/>\non His Grand Design and Plan<\/p>\n<p>It may look like a chess game<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re all playing in the Dark<br \/>\nbut the King&#8217;s lasts move is &#8220;Checkmate&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;and as in the days of the ancient ark <\/p>\n<p>He offers us free passage&#8230;<br \/>\nan escape from all we dread<br \/>\n(as for me, I plan to get on board&#8230;<br \/>\nno matter WHO says God is dead) <\/p>\n<p>Before Darkness wins this weary world<br \/>\nThe Conquering King will return<br \/>\nHIS Light will dry our every tear&#8230;<br \/>\nbringing the PEACE for which we yearn<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN0960-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0960\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN0960-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN0960-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN0960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness overtakes us we must walk toward the LIGHT The challenge is to know the TRUTH and seek to do what&#8217;s right The world is in a struggle and humankind needs hope Before Darkness does destroy us we must hold on to the &#8220;Rope&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029","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\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19029"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19435,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029\/revisions\/19435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}