{"id":49919,"date":"2019-06-22T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49919"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:24:36","slug":"no-tunnel-no-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/no-tunnel-no-light\/","title":{"rendered":"No Tunnel, No Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s dark in here<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And narrow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can\u2019t seem to make headway<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because I cannot see<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s in front of me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or behind<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If I stretch my arm out<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What will it touch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m so afraid to find out<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet I cannot be idle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because the unknown<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is scarier than the truth<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I step forward, boldly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only to have the darkness <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swallow me up<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Was that a noise I heard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or just my own heartbeat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pounding mercilessly, loudly<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If only there was light<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A glimmer of hope<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To light my path<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To give me strength<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If only it wasn\u2019t so dark<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Could I find my way<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s dark in here And narrow I can\u2019t seem to make headway Because I cannot see What\u2019s in front of me Or behind &nbsp; If I stretch my arm out What will it touch I\u2019m so afraid to find out Yet I cannot be idle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49919","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\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49949,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49919\/revisions\/49949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}