{"id":19186,"date":"2016-08-13T11:26:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19186"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:26:37","slug":"hour-three-before-darkness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-three-before-darkness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUR THREE: BEFORE DARKNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">flick the switch, dim the day <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">close the lids, tilt the earth <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">leave the city, long to stay<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">get back the color, eyes closed, before birth <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">find a hole to dig, a building to build <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">get caught in an implosion <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pour concrete til the bath is filled <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hold breath, eyes closed, on the floor of the ocean<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pick up black out blinds, storm shutters<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eye masks of a kind, ignore the others <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">gathered around the light<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">who stand, eyes closed, backs to the night<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>flick the switch, dim the day close the lids, tilt the earth leave the city, long to stay get back the color, eyes closed, before birth &nbsp; find a hole to dig, a building to build get caught in an implosion pour concrete til the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186","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\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19218,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186\/revisions\/19218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}