{"id":19368,"date":"2016-08-13T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19368"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:53:10","slug":"when-darkness-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/when-darkness-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"When Darkness Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love you forever<\/p>\n<p>I like you for always<\/p>\n<p>As long as I am living<\/p>\n<p>my baby you will be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my favorite book to read to my daughter<\/p>\n<p>knowing that one day my love won&#8217;t be the love she yearns for<\/p>\n<p>It will be the love she searches for, outside<\/p>\n<p>looking underneath the bed<\/p>\n<p>in dresser drawers<\/p>\n<p>old trunks<\/p>\n<p>kitchen cabinets<\/p>\n<p>everywhere else but within<\/p>\n<p>until she meets the one who will engage her<\/p>\n<p>like the dark knight<\/p>\n<p>stealing her precious belongings<\/p>\n<p>burying them in the backyard<\/p>\n<p>as his own trophy<\/p>\n<p>while she searches<\/p>\n<p>under the bed<\/p>\n<p>in dresser drawers<\/p>\n<p>old trunks<\/p>\n<p>and kitchen cabinets<\/p>\n<p>looking for those parts of herself that she lost<\/p>\n<p>while searching for the love she thought she needed<\/p>\n<p>until she realized all that she needed<\/p>\n<p>was already within herself<\/p>\n<p>before the darkness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love you forever I like you for always As long as I am living my baby you will be &nbsp; my favorite book to read to my daughter knowing that one day my love won&#8217;t be the love she yearns for It will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19482,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368\/revisions\/19482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}