{"id":21576,"date":"2016-08-13T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21576"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:17:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:17:26","slug":"before-darkness-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stood\u00a0before Darkness<br \/>\nAs a light from God.<br \/>\nThe God everyone knows.<br \/>\nYes, that God.<\/p>\n<p>I stood there,<br \/>\nA talkative child<br \/>\nEager to share<br \/>\nHis love.<\/p>\n<p>But Darkness was empty.<br \/>\nA bush full of thorns<br \/>\nAnd thoughts of evil things.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Darkness is as Darkness does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stood\u00a0before Darkness As a light from God. The God everyone knows. Yes, that God. I stood there, A talkative child Eager to share His love. But Darkness was empty. A bush full of thorns And thoughts of evil things. Yes, Darkness is as Darkness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21576","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\/21576","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21662,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21576\/revisions\/21662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}