{"id":19440,"date":"2016-08-13T11:53:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19440"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:00:43","slug":"19440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/19440\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before darkness<br \/>\ncomes the<br \/>\nforeboding crackle<\/p>\n<p>momentary<br \/>\ndisorientation giving<br \/>\nway to cursed luck<br \/>\nfate, ill-timed<br \/>\nfortune<\/p>\n<p>there exists briefly<br \/>\na vacuum knowing<br \/>\nneither light nor absence<br \/>\nof\u00a0 illumination<\/p>\n<p>there is no good that<br \/>\ncomes from channeling<br \/>\ndormant, evolutionary<br \/>\nbat instincts<\/p>\n<p>only stubbed<br \/>\nemotional toes, bruised<br \/>\npsyche shins<br \/>\nleading to the inevitable<\/p>\n<p>frustration of finding<br \/>\nyou are completely<br \/>\nout of the right bulb for<br \/>\nthe space in which<br \/>\nyou\u00a0currently stand<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8211; Mark L. Lucker<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a9 2016<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before darkness comes the foreboding crackle momentary disorientation giving way to cursed luck fate, ill-timed fortune there exists briefly a vacuum knowing neither light nor absence of\u00a0 illumination there is no good that comes from channeling dormant, evolutionary bat instincts only stubbed emotional toes, bruised&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[1381,459,444],"class_list":["post-19440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-before-the-darkness","tag-hour-3-prompt","tag-prompt-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19498,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions\/19498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}