{"id":19561,"date":"2016-08-13T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19561"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:03:23","slug":"before-darkness-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness<\/p>\n<p>Daylight friezes,<br \/>\nPicturesque tile mosaics<br \/>\nPhoto shopped to taste<br \/>\nApartment ledge jumpers<br \/>\nPoised for the leap<br \/>\nDecorate the city<br \/>\nLike gargoyles.<\/p>\n<p>When sirens slice<br \/>\nSleep like death<br \/>\nWho can hear the whispers?<br \/>\nTunneled mice scamper<br \/>\nTwisting babies&#8217; dreams<br \/>\nThe screams drawled<br \/>\nIn wincing o&#8217;s, frozen.<\/p>\n<p>But when darkness comes<br \/>\nThe neon lights the way<br \/>\nIlluminates the day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness Daylight friezes, Picturesque tile mosaics Photo shopped to taste Apartment ledge jumpers Poised for the leap Decorate the city Like gargoyles. When sirens slice Sleep like death Who can hear the whispers? Tunneled mice scamper Twisting babies&#8217; dreams The screams drawled In wincing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19570,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions\/19570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}