{"id":19106,"date":"2016-08-13T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19106"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:18:13","slug":"hour-three-before-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-three-before-the-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Three: Before the Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Before the Darkness<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before the Darkness rides the Maiden<\/p>\n<p>clothed in steel and leather, at her gauntleted wrist<\/p>\n<p>a flash of skin soft and fair<\/p>\n<p>as the flesh of a calla lily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Strike in the day, my love,<\/p>\n<p>and drive the enemy before you;<\/p>\n<p>that all who trudge under the mortal sun<\/p>\n<p>be driven off the edge of the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We wait, at the edge of night<\/p>\n<p>to be born in your shadow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Darkness &nbsp; Before the Darkness rides the Maiden clothed in steel and leather, at her gauntleted wrist a flash of skin soft and fair as the flesh of a calla lily. &nbsp; Strike in the day, my love, and drive the enemy before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106","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\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19118,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions\/19118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}