{"id":19332,"date":"2016-08-13T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19332"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:32:57","slug":"2016-marathon-hour-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/2016-marathon-hour-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 03 &#8211; Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Before Darkness<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Before darkness can bring about the night<br \/>\nAnd steal the world\u2019s colors from your sight,<br \/>\nPaint all your memories in vivid hues<br \/>\nTo play and then rewind, if you should choose<br \/>\nAnd in your dreams, keep all the colors bright.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">You cannot halt the fading of the light,<br \/>\nOr still your heart when shadows give a fright.<br \/>\nYou must decide what defense you will use,<br \/>\nBefore darkness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Your darkened fear will offer no respite<br \/>\nAnd simple courage will have taken flight.<br \/>\nThe strongest men, their battles sometimes lose,<br \/>\nBut when you want to hide, you must refuse<br \/>\nAnd hold close in your heart, the days delight<br \/>\nBefore darkness.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness Before darkness can bring about the night And steal the world\u2019s colors from your sight, Paint all your memories in vivid hues To play and then rewind, if you should choose And in your dreams, keep all the colors bright. You cannot halt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1367,680,119],"class_list":["post-19332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-beforedarkness","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-fear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19332","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\/839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27666,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19332\/revisions\/27666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}