{"id":42448,"date":"2017-08-06T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42448"},"modified":"2017-08-06T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T18:19:44","slug":"lady-slumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/lady-slumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Slumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bleary eyed I sit a-typing<br \/>\nplagued as every writer before me<br \/>\nhas been with the writing<br \/>\nsitting up when sleep beckons<br \/>\nin her ghostly form<br \/>\nher sweet smile curves upward<br \/>\nand I am reminded of the cool<br \/>\nrelief of her embrace and how<br \/>\nit feels to sink into<br \/>\nthe mistiness of her fragrant form<br \/>\nto refill the need<br \/>\nof the mind<br \/>\nto seek the land<br \/>\nwhere stories are born<br \/>\ndeep in our dreams<br \/>\nwe swim the ether and course the waves<br \/>\nto wake in the warm sand of morning<br \/>\nthe sun shining in our eyes<br \/>\nthe keyboard at hand once again<br \/>\nthe stories<br \/>\nthe words<br \/>\npouring forth<br \/>\nfresh baked from that special place<br \/>\nI need to go<br \/>\nAs lady sleep is calling calling<br \/>\nI find myself faling falling<br \/>\nIn the morning the words will come again<br \/>\nThe words sitting in my head<br \/>\nAll waiting to pour themselves out<br \/>\nAs though they write themselves<br \/>\nHold me now, sweet lady<br \/>\nI am ready for slumber<br \/>\nno more will I linger in the world<br \/>\nof the real<br \/>\nsweet lady calls me<br \/>\nwilling I go <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bleary eyed I sit a-typing plagued as every writer before me has been with the writing sitting up when sleep beckons in her ghostly form her sweet smile curves upward and I am reminded of the cool relief of her embrace and how it feels&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43420,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448\/revisions\/43420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}