{"id":50507,"date":"2019-06-22T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50507"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:07:34","slug":"inspiration-coming-when-the-lights-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/inspiration-coming-when-the-lights-are-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration Coming When the Lights are Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wicked muse, fair-weather friend,<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t talk to you tonight;<br \/>\nThe sounds of raindrops descend<br \/>\nLike soft breeze on a dim light.<\/p>\n<p>An everyday has mussed my face,<br \/>\nShall I get up to brush my teeth?<br \/>\nYou tempt me with an odd verse<br \/>\nAnd not much after or beneath.<\/p>\n<p>I am counting on your being here,<br \/>\nI so badly want to rhyme.<br \/>\nBut here we haven&#8217;t a full Shakespeare,<br \/>\nNot even a Sondheim.<\/p>\n<p>If I turn on the light, do you promise to stay,<br \/>\nWicked muse, oh, to play?<br \/>\nOur history unveils a nay,<br \/>\nAnd I dare not for fear of scaring you away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicked muse, fair-weather friend, I can&#8217;t talk to you tonight; The sounds of raindrops descend Like soft breeze on a dim light. An everyday has mussed my face, Shall I get up to brush my teeth? You tempt me with an odd verse And not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[151,2820,15,10],"class_list":["post-50507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour-7","tag-my-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50507","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\/1143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50867,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50507\/revisions\/50867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}