{"id":35250,"date":"2017-08-05T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35250"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:33:50","slug":"starlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/starlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlight (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were the mountains<br \/>\nImmovable, looming above<br \/>\nLooking down on us<br \/>\nTelling us we could not<br \/>\nTelling us we weren&#8217;t enough<br \/>\nBut we traversed the trails<br \/>\nClimbed the rocks and cliffs<br \/>\nOver the top, and down the other side<br \/>\nThen moved along<br \/>\nUntil they were nowhere in sight<\/p>\n<p>They were the blazing sun<br \/>\nBeating down upon us<br \/>\nBurning with it&#8217;s touch<br \/>\nDemanding to be seen<br \/>\nDemanding to be heard<br \/>\nBut we found refuge in the shadow<br \/>\nOf a tall, old tree<br \/>\nLaughing the day away<br \/>\nWatching the sun as it set<br \/>\nLeaving us to the night<\/p>\n<p>They were the night<br \/>\nCasting darkness upon our world<br \/>\nShadows to hide us<br \/>\nFear to consume us<br \/>\nTo tear us apart<br \/>\nBut our dreams were the moonlight<br \/>\nBanishing the darkness<br \/>\nOur hopes embedded in it&#8217;s pure white glow<br \/>\nAnd we<br \/>\nWe were starlight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were the mountains Immovable, looming above Looking down on us Telling us we could not Telling us we weren&#8217;t enough But we traversed the trails Climbed the rocks and cliffs Over the top, and down the other side Then moved along Until they were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35250","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\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89712,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35250\/revisions\/89712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}