{"id":32482,"date":"2017-08-05T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32482"},"modified":"2017-08-05T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:39:53","slug":"before-darkness-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/before-darkness-224\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;before darkness&#8221; &#8211; 2\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>such average silhouettes<br \/>\nliving in the light of their honeymoon<br \/>\ndoused with kisses and expectations,<br \/>\na clever guise for kerosene.<br \/>\nthey paint phase by phase a map of forever,<br \/>\nnot realizing that the amber shade of their moon will fade.<br \/>\nEvery full and every crescent will set again<br \/>\nand before darkness &#8211;<br \/>\nthe lover&#8217;s eyes will see something less sweet,<br \/>\na mustard sun,<br \/>\nbut they won&#8217;t dare to confuse that for reality,<br \/>\nhand in hand, a tight rope walk of grand illusion,<br \/>\nto see sweetness where there will be none.<\/p>\n<p>before darkness, they will never accept the sun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(based on a prompt from another year &#8211; &#8220;write a poem titled &#8216;before darkness&#8217;.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><!--Clip_XXXX_170805_103653_092--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>such average silhouettes living in the light of their honeymoon doused with kisses and expectations, a clever guise for kerosene. they paint phase by phase a map of forever, not realizing that the amber shade of their moon will fade. Every full and every crescent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32482","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32514,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32482\/revisions\/32514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}