{"id":24933,"date":"2016-08-13T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24933"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:00:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:00:47","slug":"312-before-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/312-before-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"(#3\/12): \u201cBefore Darkness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I rage impotently against the dying light.<\/p>\n<p>Before I scream incoherently as my gaolers drag me away.<\/p>\n<p>Before my vision narrows inexorably to nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>Before the last vestiges of acuity, clarity, and dignity disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Before I kneel to the inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>And shamble off into nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before my time comes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let me see this world again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2016 SP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I rage impotently against the dying light. Before I scream incoherently as my gaolers drag me away. Before my vision narrows inexorably to nothingness. Before the last vestiges of acuity, clarity, and dignity disappear. Before I kneel to the inevitable. And shamble off into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24933","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24939,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24933\/revisions\/24939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}