{"id":23239,"date":"2016-08-13T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23239"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:00:05","slug":"burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Life within the flame, a life of ash,<br \/>\nrevealing the marrow of our bones.<br \/>\nOur character forged and tested by fire,<br \/>\nuntil we shine like the purest of silver.<br \/>\nRain will come, wash all the ash away,<br \/>\nand polish our reddened eyes.<\/h4>\n<h4>Pain extinguished,<br \/>\nthe dying embers of a shattered being stitched together,<br \/>\nwith the threads of celestial hope.<br \/>\nAll things must burn to prove their worth.<br \/>\nSightless, I must now see only through the eyes of faith.<\/h4>\n<h4>Thudding, pounding, drowning,<br \/>\nthe delicate silk of my heart\u2019s desire.<br \/>\nThe need of a single moment, the desperate need of forever.<br \/>\nA lover\u2019s embrace, and his burning heart.<br \/>\nI beg you, wings of time, stop beating,<br \/>\nand let me catch my breath.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>10th out of 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life within the flame, a life of ash, revealing the marrow of our bones. Our character forged and tested by fire, until we shine like the purest of silver. Rain will come, wash all the ash away, and polish our reddened eyes. Pain extinguished, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[680,1709,1711,1201,1710,75,31,10,1158,1280,48,390],"class_list":["post-23239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-burn","tag-character","tag-faith","tag-forged","tag-inspiration","tag-love","tag-poetry","tag-poetryhalfmarathon2016","tag-saskia-lynge","tag-time","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23239","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\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23261,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23239\/revisions\/23261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}