{"id":38496,"date":"2017-08-05T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38496"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:25:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:25:29","slug":"just-barely-short-enough-hour-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/just-barely-short-enough-hour-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Barely Short Enough (Hour 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An emptiness within an emptiness,<br \/>\never consuming the only means of escape,<br \/>\nwith passionate desolation.\t<\/p>\n<p>The darkness is but a pierced blanket<br \/>\nadorned with a brilliant multitude of stars.<br \/>\nAt no edge is it ever thick enough<br \/>\nto deny the light of inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Time brings bright smiles and young laughter,<br \/>\nnew love and a sense of belonging.<br \/>\nDesire grows to fight against the swelling apathy,<br \/>\nto take life back from the clutches<br \/>\nof disillusionment and abandon.<\/p>\n<p>Choking upon an untrue breath<br \/>\nusing love as a means to cheat death.<br \/>\nIt is a lie that erases,<br \/>\nthe difficulty of struggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emptiness within an emptiness, ever consuming the only means of escape, with passionate desolation. The darkness is but a pierced blanket adorned with a brilliant multitude of stars. At no edge is it ever thick enough to deny the light of inspiration. Time brings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38496","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38510,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38496\/revisions\/38510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}