{"id":38678,"date":"2017-08-05T20:45:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38678"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:45:47","slug":"night-and-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/night-and-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Night and day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My strong nocturnal nature is<br \/>\ncontinually at loggerheads<br \/>\nwith my propensity for early<br \/>\nrising, taking in a new day shortly<br \/>\nafter it begins, racing the sun<br \/>\nsqueezing in sleep after a long day<br \/>\nprior to quickly starting another<br \/>\nI have yet to reconcile my propensity<br \/>\nto extract the glory of fresh starts<br \/>\nwhile also savoring the still darkness<\/p>\n<p>Sleep, when it comes, falls quickly<br \/>\nends, ironically, in much the same way<br \/>\nthere are always promises to keep<br \/>\non either side, of nuisance sleep<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a9 2017<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My strong nocturnal nature is continually at loggerheads with my propensity for early rising, taking in a new day shortly after it begins, racing the sun squeezing in sleep after a long day prior to quickly starting another I have yet to reconcile my propensity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[2521,2522,842],"class_list":["post-38678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017-prompt-12","tag-8090-poem","tag-prompt-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38692,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678\/revisions\/38692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}