{"id":41725,"date":"2017-08-06T05:03:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41725"},"modified":"2017-08-06T06:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:10:41","slug":"darkness-descends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/darkness-descends\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkness Descends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terror reigns in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Fear grips my heart.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an enemy in every shadow.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I&#8217;m all alone here in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>I try to run as fast I can,<\/p>\n<p>Footsteps are pounding in my ears.<\/p>\n<p>I trip and fall and bang my knee,<\/p>\n<p>And fight back all my tears.<\/p>\n<p>I crawl my way to safety, unable to stay upright.<\/p>\n<p>When at last I reach that glorious switch,<\/p>\n<p>and turn on my house&#8217;s lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terror reigns in my mind. Fear grips my heart. There&#8217;s an enemy in every shadow. Yet I&#8217;m all alone here in the dark. I try to run as fast I can, Footsteps are pounding in my ears. I trip and fall and bang my knee,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41725","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\/1038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41756,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41725\/revisions\/41756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}