{"id":19235,"date":"2016-08-13T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19235"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:56:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:56:42","slug":"before-darkness-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the last crepuscular rays bathe the marsh in sweet golds and pinks, predation peaks.<\/p>\n<p>Twilight hours inspire nightmares &#8211; ethereal veils barely separating the living from the soon to be dead.<\/p>\n<p>Light refracts oddly in this aqueous medium that fosters beguiling shadows. Always remember, there is uncertainty in the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>So, I will hunker down in my refuge &#8211; wait the night out. Alone, just before darkness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Note from the author: Many fish are susceptible to predation during dawn and dusk. Predators that feed during these times are called crepuscular predators.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the last crepuscular rays bathe the marsh in sweet golds and pinks, predation peaks. Twilight hours inspire nightmares &#8211; ethereal veils barely separating the living from the soon to be dead. Light refracts oddly in this aqueous medium that fosters beguiling shadows. Always remember,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1385,1382,1383,1384,17,1386,1215],"class_list":["post-19235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-ecology","tag-fish","tag-fish-predation","tag-marshes","tag-nature","tag-scicomm","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235","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\/898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19510,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235\/revisions\/19510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}