{"id":27595,"date":"2016-08-14T05:22:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27595"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:22:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:22:53","slug":"there-is-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/there-is-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"There is Silence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There is silence\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No humming TV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No buzzing phone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No static voices in the background.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is silence\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My brain doesn\u2019t speak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My heart doesn\u2019t beat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My ears don\u2019t ring in a disturbing pitch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is silence\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The world sleeps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The moon wanes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The day lumbers on slothful tip-toe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is silence\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the room around me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the air outside.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the dreams where my consciousness hides.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is silence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is Silence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 14, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is silence\u2026 No humming TV. No buzzing phone. No static voices in the background. There is silence\u2026 My brain doesn\u2019t speak. My heart doesn\u2019t beat. My ears don\u2019t ring in a disturbing pitch. There is silence\u2026 The world sleeps. The moon wanes. The day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-27595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27595","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\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27606,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27595\/revisions\/27606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}