{"id":3816,"date":"2014-08-24T01:15:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T05:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2014-08-24T01:15:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T05:15:23","slug":"nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmares."},"content":{"rendered":"

I scream my name out to the canyon walls. At least, I believe it’s my name. It’s been 2 months 3 weeks and 5 days since anyone said it.<\/p>\n

But it’s not like I’m counting.<\/p>\n

It bounces from the rust-red rock and twists its way through the night air, startling a flock of birds from the trees\u00a0and getting lost between the sound of their squawks and flapping wings.<\/p>\n

Even they can’t stand to hear its jagged sound.<\/p>\n

Night seems darker when you’re in it alone. Like the light of another human being can scare aware\u00a0the looming presence of the nightmares hidden around each bend.<\/p>\n

But the nightmares come.
\nThey always come.
\nAnd I’m the only one left alive to come for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I scream my name out to the canyon walls. At least, I believe it’s my name. It’s been 2 months 3 weeks and 5 days since anyone said it. But it’s not like I’m counting. It bounces from the rust-red rock and twists its way…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[180,15,10],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-alone","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}