{"id":19085,"date":"2016-08-13T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19085"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:27:29","slug":"before-darkness-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Before darkness was known&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nThere was only light!<br \/>\nYet darkness was shown;<br \/>\nAs to illuminate the night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before darkness was dark&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nIt made all creatures blind.<br \/>\nThey heard the singing of a lark;<br \/>\nAnd heard only words of the kind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before darkness was named;<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was just the absence of light.<br \/>\nIt was not sin, nor shame;<br \/>\nThere just was no insight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before\u00a0light was born;<\/strong><br \/>\nThere was just the whole;<br \/>\nThe darkness we did not mourn;<br \/>\nWe were the light within the soul!<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; Not sure it makes sense, yet, I am enjoying doing two poems an hour. One my own, the other based on the prompt. &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before darkness was known&#8230; There was only light! Yet darkness was shown; As to illuminate the night. Before darkness was dark&#8230; It made all creatures blind. They heard the singing of a lark; And heard only words of the kind. Before darkness was named; It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,5],"tags":[1328,590,199,1344],"class_list":["post-19085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-darkness","tag-light","tag-soul","tag-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085","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\/745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19234,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085\/revisions\/19234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}