{"id":19094,"date":"2016-08-13T11:18:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19094"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:56:53","slug":"before-darkness-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Before Darkness<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before darkness<\/p>\n<p>in those last,<\/p>\n<p>quiet moments<\/p>\n<p>when the sky is pinkest,<\/p>\n<p>there is<\/p>\n<p>a breath<\/p>\n<p>when<\/p>\n<p>winking stars<\/p>\n<p>promise us<\/p>\n<p>we are of them, too:<\/p>\n<p>phosphorus<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>zinc<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>gold \u2013<\/p>\n<p>start dust<\/p>\n<p>and star guts<\/p>\n<p>so that<\/p>\n<p>before the darkness<\/p>\n<p>closes in<\/p>\n<p>we<\/p>\n<p>fill it with<\/p>\n<p>starlight<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>remember where we\u2019ve come from.<\/p>\n<p>(c) R. L. Elke 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness \u00a0 Before darkness in those last, quiet moments when the sky is pinkest, there is a breath when winking stars promise us we are of them, too: phosphorus and zinc and gold \u2013 start dust and star guts so that before the darkness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19094","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23244,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19094\/revisions\/23244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}