{"id":19165,"date":"2016-08-13T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19165"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:37:22","slug":"prompt-three-before-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/prompt-three-before-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Three&#8211;Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19172\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Before-Darkness-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Before Darkness\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Before-Darkness-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Before-Darkness-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Before-Darkness-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Before-Darkness-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Before-Darkness.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before Darkness<\/p>\n<p>El Paso&#8217;s evening symphony<br \/>\nbegins fortissimo, an explosion<br \/>\nof vibrant colors streaking<br \/>\nthe desert sky,\u00a0azure, orange, rose,<br \/>\na visual songburst echoed<br \/>\nby the last, frantic calls of birds<br \/>\nseeking shelter within\u00a0the palms<br \/>\nand scrub, the <em>scree, scree<\/em><br \/>\nof crickets advertising availability,<br \/>\nand the scrabbling, scurrying<br \/>\nrustle of miniscule desert lizards<br \/>\nsearching out day&#8217;s few remaining<br \/>\nthrumming vessels of heat<br \/>\nto sustain them through the night.<\/p>\n<p>Softly, surely, in deepening streaks,<br \/>\nthe light purples down to dusk,<br \/>\nthe birds settle to cooing mumbles,<br \/>\nand crickets and lizards slow to stillness,<br \/>\ntheir nightly hibernation begun<br \/>\nas the emerging moon silvers<br \/>\nand silhouettes, and all quiets<br \/>\nto the tick, ticking of\u00a0my small world,<br \/>\ncontracting\u00a0into darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness El Paso&#8217;s evening symphony begins fortissimo, an explosion of vibrant colors streaking the desert sky,\u00a0azure, orange, rose, a visual songburst echoed by the last, frantic calls of birds seeking shelter within\u00a0the palms and scrub, the scree, scree of crickets advertising availability, and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29625,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions\/29625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}