{"id":40657,"date":"2017-08-06T01:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40657"},"modified":"2017-08-06T01:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:47:24","slug":"lights-out-hour-16-golden-shovel-prompt-from-hour-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/lights-out-hour-16-golden-shovel-prompt-from-hour-8\/","title":{"rendered":"LIGHTS OUT   (hour 16; golden shovel prompt from hour 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a line from Weldon Kees\u2019s \u201cFive Villanelles\u201d &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must remain until the roof falls in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LIGHTS OUT<\/p>\n<p>The darkness invites us to stretch and dawdle, and we<\/p>\n<p>do, pouring more wine, telling more tales. We must<\/p>\n<p>be tired, but we stretch, pretend otherwise, remain<\/p>\n<p>hunched beside our ebbing campfire, until<\/p>\n<p>at last our yawns can\u2019t be denied, or the<\/p>\n<p>fatigue seeping into muscles. No roof<\/p>\n<p>overhead; no matter, we\u2019re all in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a line from Weldon Kees\u2019s \u201cFive Villanelles\u201d &#8212; \u201cWe must remain until the roof falls in.\u201d LIGHTS OUT The darkness invites us to stretch and dawdle, and we do, pouring more wine, telling more tales. We must be tired, but we stretch, pretend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40657","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\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40678,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40657\/revisions\/40678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}