{"id":33397,"date":"2017-08-05T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33397"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:07:08","slug":"coming-to-and-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/coming-to-and-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to and end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early morning light<\/p>\n<p>I stood on the cobblestone street<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the old city<\/p>\n<p>Visiting ghosts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the sun rose<\/p>\n<p>The shadows shifted and mingled<\/p>\n<p>The wind picked up and howled<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I stood in the middle of the cobblestone street<\/p>\n<p>In the old city hounded by ghosts swirling with the wind<\/p>\n<p>And I felt nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I felt nothing<\/p>\n<p>No sour taste behind my throat<\/p>\n<p>No constriction in my aorta<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was numbed<\/p>\n<p>I did not feel the cold air, the freezing rain, the blistering sun<\/p>\n<p>I just stood there waiting for death to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early morning light I stood on the cobblestone street In the middle of the old city Visiting ghosts &nbsp; As the sun rose The shadows shifted and mingled The wind picked up and howled &nbsp; I stood in the middle of the cobblestone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1079,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33397","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\/1079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33418,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33397\/revisions\/33418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}