{"id":19503,"date":"2016-08-13T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19503"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:03:32","slug":"19503","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/19503\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness &#8211; Poem 3\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago, before time began<\/p>\n<p>There was only Chaos<\/p>\n<p>And Darkness;<\/p>\n<p>The actual story begins<\/p>\n<p>When Darkness was replaced<\/p>\n<p>By Light;<\/p>\n<p>A lot has been said and written<\/p>\n<p>About Light and Darkness since<\/p>\n<p>But nobody ever seems<\/p>\n<p>To say and write anything about<\/p>\n<p>Before Darkness\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the reason is simple I guess:<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing but<\/p>\n<p>An endless Void<\/p>\n<p>Before Darkness\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So there simply was nothing<\/p>\n<p>To write (or talk) about<\/p>\n<p>Before Darkness<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Antoinette LeRoux \u00a9 2016<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19555\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/darkness-light-and-void-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"darkness light and void\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/darkness-light-and-void-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/darkness-light-and-void.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Courtesy of Google Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago, before time began There was only Chaos And Darkness; The actual story begins When Darkness was replaced By Light; A lot has been said and written About Light and Darkness since But nobody ever seems To say and write anything about Before Darkness\u2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503","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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19574,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions\/19574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}