{"id":19064,"date":"2016-08-13T11:56:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19064"},"modified":"2020-09-15T01:45:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T05:45:49","slug":"joybefore-darkness-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/joybefore-darkness-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before darkness&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Honeysuckle sweetness hangs in the air<\/p>\n<p>Like syrup on cornbread and pancakes we share.<\/p>\n<p>Crickets are chirping their evening song,<\/p>\n<p>Croaky old bullfrogs singing along.<\/p>\n<p>New-mown hay in the field &#8216;cross the way<\/p>\n<p>Sets the stage for the next act closing the day.<\/p>\n<p>Take a deep breath as you prepare to behold<\/p>\n<p>Simple pleasures and joys the time before darkness can hold.<\/p>\n<p>One dandelion wish for a break in the heat,<\/p>\n<p>A quick offered prayer for a peaceful night&#8217;s sleep<\/p>\n<p>As the sky in the west glows a pink ribbon lullaby<\/p>\n<p>Bidding this day goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before darkness&#8230;. Honeysuckle sweetness hangs in the air Like syrup on cornbread and pancakes we share. Crickets are chirping their evening song, Croaky old bullfrogs singing along. New-mown hay in the field &#8216;cross the way Sets the stage for the next act closing the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19064","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\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19505,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19064\/revisions\/19505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}