{"id":31298,"date":"2017-08-05T01:21:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T05:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31298"},"modified":"2017-08-05T01:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T05:21:43","slug":"twas-the-night-before-the-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/twas-the-night-before-the-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Twas The Night Before The Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twas the night before the marathon <\/p>\n<p>And as the sun set,<br \/>\nI was hunched at the keyboard just starting to sweat<\/p>\n<p>The deadline approaching, I done ate all my snacks&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;shit&#8217;s wack.<\/p>\n<p>But the muses are nourished not on smoked almonds, cheese and crackers <\/p>\n<p>The succulent nectar of inspiration their only necessary nutriment<\/p>\n<p>As they flit round the edges of my consciousness famished, mouths parched with too many words unexpressed<br \/>\nToo many concepts left to gather dust like these stacks of old notebooks that weigh down shelves with dreams unfinished<\/p>\n<p>A cool breeze chills the nervous sweat beading brow<br \/>\nSun sinks behind islands on horizon, last wisps of golden sun drift into indigo sky<br \/>\nAs yet devoid of stars<br \/>\nStill and darkening<br \/>\nSoon to start<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twas the night before the marathon And as the sun set, I was hunched at the keyboard just starting to sweat The deadline approaching, I done ate all my snacks&#8230;. &#8230;shit&#8217;s wack. But the muses are nourished not on smoked almonds, cheese and crackers The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31298","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=31298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31310,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31298\/revisions\/31310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}