{"id":28618,"date":"2016-08-14T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28618"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:14:38","slug":"stranger-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/stranger-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footsteps echo off the pavement<\/p>\n<p>Tapping rapport in the dark<\/p>\n<p>Shadows all in triplicate<\/p>\n<p>Criss-crossing over arc<\/p>\n<p>All the dogs have set to howling<\/p>\n<p>Sombre timbre to their bark<\/p>\n<p>In the air anticipation<\/p>\n<p>Of the stranger in the dark<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Black as ink the bats are dropping<\/p>\n<p>From the trees and taking flight<\/p>\n<p>Your timid footsteps catch and pitch<\/p>\n<p>Every time you start with fright<\/p>\n<p>Clouds obscure the moon above you<\/p>\n<p>Deepened shadows kill the light<\/p>\n<p>On the wind a whispered warning<\/p>\n<p>Beware the stranger in the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footsteps echo off the pavement Tapping rapport in the dark Shadows all in triplicate Criss-crossing over arc All the dogs have set to howling Sombre timbre to their bark In the air anticipation Of the stranger in the dark &nbsp; Black as ink the bats&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28618","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\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28658,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28618\/revisions\/28658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}