{"id":28605,"date":"2016-08-14T08:34:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28605"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:34:52","slug":"bittersweet-finality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/bittersweet-finality\/","title":{"rendered":"Bittersweet Finality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Itzpapalotl stretches her obsidian butterfly wings into meteor-streaked skies<br \/>\nThe muses reach for final burst of inspiration, scavenging words from dreamscapes<\/p>\n<p>Words jotted down in notebooks find their final form in lines<br \/>\nNot so much written but intuited by zombie-like autopilot mind<br \/>\nAll the remnants of ideas unformed nearing completion<br \/>\nDive into the deep end, pull the last glistening threads from dreams of those asleep<br \/>\nWe creep towards the finish weeping tears of gratitude<\/p>\n<p>Anticlimactic poetry addicts beaten and drained by 24 hours of pleasureful pain<br \/>\nFinally able to rest our aching brains trying to process what the fuck just happened  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itzpapalotl stretches her obsidian butterfly wings into meteor-streaked skies The muses reach for final burst of inspiration, scavenging words from dreamscapes Words jotted down in notebooks find their final form in lines Not so much written but intuited by zombie-like autopilot mind All the remnants&#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-28605","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\/28605","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=28605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28780,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28605\/revisions\/28780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}