{"id":22458,"date":"2016-08-13T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22458"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:38:14","slug":"darkest-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/darkest-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkest Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paralyzed<br \/>\nTrapped by fear<br \/>\nWorry consumes me<\/p>\n<p>My imagination gone wild<br \/>\nTipped off the deep end<br \/>\nCreating scenarios<br \/>\nEach one worse than the last<\/p>\n<p>I must get control<br \/>\nBut that is the problem<br \/>\nMy fears are a symptom<br \/>\nOf my need for control<\/p>\n<p>Control and fear<br \/>\nThey feed on each other<br \/>\nAnd so I resolve<br \/>\nTo starve them out<\/p>\n<p>Instead I surrender<br \/>\nReleasing control<br \/>\nLeaning into<br \/>\nSomething greater than myself<\/p>\n<p>Fears thrive in darkness<br \/>\nAnd as I step toward the Light<br \/>\nI feel them slip away<br \/>\nBack into the nothingness from which they came<\/p>\n<p>The Light lifts me up<br \/>\nI reach toward freedom<br \/>\nBreathing a sigh of relief<br \/>\nAnd feeling renewed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paralyzed Trapped by fear Worry consumes me My imagination gone wild Tipped off the deep end Creating scenarios Each one worse than the last I must get control But that is the problem My fears are a symptom Of my need for control Control and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":881,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22458","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\/881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22466,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22458\/revisions\/22466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}