{"id":21764,"date":"2016-08-13T15:28:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21764"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:29:37","slug":"the-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-angst\/","title":{"rendered":"The Angst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My death awaits me somewhere up ahead<br \/>\nEach step I take leads me to it\u2019s embrace<br \/>\nI must go on I cannot stop instead<br \/>\nIt looms ahead and waits to show it\u2019s face<br \/>\nIs fear of this my only lot in life?<br \/>\nA fate that grows much closer year to year<br \/>\nBe bold, be brave, do not give up in strife<br \/>\nAll life must end for now be of good cheer<br \/>\nThough haunts me still one day ahead I\u2019ll die<br \/>\nAnd when I do, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019ll leave<br \/>\nWhat meaning is the light gone from my eye<br \/>\nDoes light return? the hope of those who grieve.<br \/>\nYet this I know one man has died and rose<br \/>\nIn death we wait to follow where he goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My death awaits me somewhere up ahead Each step I take leads me to it\u2019s embrace I must go on I cannot stop instead It looms ahead and waits to show it\u2019s face Is fear of this my only lot in life? A fate that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21770,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions\/21770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}