{"id":24554,"date":"2016-08-13T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24554"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:25:17","slug":"under-the-moonlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/under-the-moonlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Under The Moonlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the night falls and darkness descends<br \/>\nThe moon rises to it&#8217;s full glory<br \/>\nLighting up the dark lake<br \/>\nBeautiful in it&#8217;s presence<br \/>\nAnd the world within<\/p>\n<p>Away from the light<br \/>\nUnder the shade of the canopy<br \/>\nResting her head upon a tree<br \/>\nHer panic stricken beautiful eyes<br \/>\nWander around to see, any hint of shadows<\/p>\n<p>There is none and she is calm<br \/>\nMoving out into the light<br \/>\nShe makes her way to the lake<br \/>\nHer silver gown cascading after her<br \/>\nHer hair ruffled by the wind.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the silence of the night<br \/>\nIs shattered by the galloping of horses<br \/>\nAnd in one swift movement<br \/>\nShe is swept off her feet<br \/>\nAnd carried into the night<\/p>\n<p>Her beautiful eyes now full of fear<br \/>\nAs she raises them to the face of the stranger<br \/>\nHe sees the scared look and stops<br \/>\nSmiling sheepishly, he apologises to her<br \/>\nSays he couldn&#8217;t help surprising her.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment, her face is expressionless<br \/>\nThen it breaks into a smile<br \/>\nAs she looks into the eyes of her lover<br \/>\nAnd forgives his mischievious endeavor<br \/>\nAs they ride towards the lake under the moonlight together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the night falls and darkness descends The moon rises to it&#8217;s full glory Lighting up the dark lake Beautiful in it&#8217;s presence And the world within Away from the light Under the shade of the canopy Resting her head upon a tree Her panic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1851,1850],"class_list":["post-24554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-cheesy","tag-lastone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24554","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24586,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24554\/revisions\/24586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}