{"id":20661,"date":"2016-08-13T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20661"},"modified":"2016-08-14T06:19:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:19:05","slug":"before-darkness-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-3-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness  #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An amber orb, waltzes daintily in the sky,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>drowning in the orange streaks above the horizon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Light slithers away,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>relinquishing its claim over the terrain with a cry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malevolent shadows,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>hide in every nook and cranny<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>waiting silently for darkness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to make its grand entrance, to propose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The tawny expanse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>evolves into a dark blanket<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>of shimmery blues and blacks-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>glimmering specks of romance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gossamer clouds hide under gauze veils<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>and galaxies glitter like uncut diamonds fit for a wedding ring.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mulberry paints the sky,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>the colours swirling to form spectacular images and tales.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amber orb, waltzes daintily in the sky, drowning in the orange streaks above the horizon. Light slithers away, relinquishing its claim over the terrain with a cry. &nbsp; Malevolent shadows, hide in every nook and cranny waiting silently for darkness to make its grand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27934,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661\/revisions\/27934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}