{"id":19290,"date":"2016-08-13T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19290"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:35:13","slug":"before-darkness-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He stood<br \/>\nBefore the darkness of his own mind<br \/>\nArms folded<br \/>\nJaw clenched<br \/>\nWondering how it had gotten to this point<\/p>\n<p>Once he was free-spirited<br \/>\nJoyful<br \/>\nAlive<br \/>\nBut somehow<br \/>\nOver time<br \/>\nThe darkness closed in<\/p>\n<p>Fear ruled his life now<br \/>\nAnxiety had a stranglehold<br \/>\nSadness from the loss<br \/>\nLike a weight on his chest<\/p>\n<p>Taking a stand<br \/>\nWilling himself to survive<br \/>\nHe keeps his focus<br \/>\nOn the dim flickering light<br \/>\nStill alive in his heart<\/p>\n<p>Somehow<br \/>\nHope still lives within him<br \/>\nIt fans the flame<br \/>\nAnd won&#8217;t let it go out<br \/>\nIt will not bow down<br \/>\nBefore darkness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He stood Before the darkness of his own mind Arms folded Jaw clenched Wondering how it had gotten to this point Once he was free-spirited Joyful Alive But somehow Over time The darkness closed in Fear ruled his life now Anxiety had a stranglehold Sadness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":881,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290","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\/881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19304,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290\/revisions\/19304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}