{"id":3421,"date":"2014-08-23T22:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T02:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2014-08-27T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T19:45:42","slug":"monsters-and-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/monsters-and-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters and Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;Monsters and Demons&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">Fumbling, stumbling,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">My whole world is crumbling,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">My vision is blurring,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">My rationale is obscuring,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">My mind is racing,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">My thoughts are unclean, unspeakable\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">Horrors of monsters and demons,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">My heart is pounding, my hands are shaking\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">A tortured voice from within begs and pleads for the madness to end.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">God or Gods, whichever you may be, I cannot stop crying!\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">Let it subside, oh please have mercy!\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">The evil monster &#8216;depression&#8217; is at it again,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">Consuming and devouring all whom may cross its path,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">Soon I will no longer have the strength to conquer these monsters and demons,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #3d4141\" \/><span style=\"color: #3d4141\">What will happen then?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Monsters and Demons&#8221; Fumbling, stumbling,\u00a0My whole world is crumbling,\u00a0My vision is blurring,\u00a0My rationale is obscuring,\u00a0My mind is racing,\u00a0My thoughts are unclean, unspeakable\u00a0Horrors of monsters and demons,\u00a0My heart is pounding, my hands are shaking\u00a0A tortured voice from within begs and pleads for the madness to end.\u00a0God&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4832,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}