{"id":27842,"date":"2016-08-14T06:48:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27842"},"modified":"2016-08-14T06:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:48:24","slug":"the-night-is-for-sleeping-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-night-is-for-sleeping-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Is For Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is this masochistic urge,<br \/>\nThis strange compulsion to ignore important biorhythms,<br \/>\nWalk this jumbled path<\/p>\n<p>As if the sacrifice of time and inspiration weren&#8217;t enough<br \/>\nAs if the eyelids of the mind&#8217;s eye haven&#8217;t closed and given up<\/p>\n<p>We stumble on<\/p>\n<p>With leaden limbs<br \/>\nWith muses bleary-eyed and cranky<br \/>\nCycles interrupted,<br \/>\nPunch-drunk, slap-happy staring at empty page<\/p>\n<p>Coffee shakes and face unshaven,<br \/>\nTriscuit traces on the mousepad<br \/>\nEyes bloodshot and glazed,<br \/>\nJust a reflection of our weary minds<\/p>\n<p>The battle for unconsciousness<br \/>\nNecessity of sleep ignored<br \/>\nDig deep and deny every conscious thought imploring you to rest <\/p>\n<p>Nyx cackles gleefully as we deny her Hypnos power<br \/>\nAll we have to do is hold the bastard off for two more hours    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this masochistic urge, This strange compulsion to ignore important biorhythms, Walk this jumbled path As if the sacrifice of time and inspiration weren&#8217;t enough As if the eyelids of the mind&#8217;s eye haven&#8217;t closed and given up We stumble on With leaden limbs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842","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\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28088,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842\/revisions\/28088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}