{"id":51832,"date":"2019-06-22T17:48:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51832"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:54:33","slug":"2019-9-the-remains-of-the-day-title-of-novel-by-kazuo-ishiguro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/2019-9-the-remains-of-the-day-title-of-novel-by-kazuo-ishiguro\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 #9 The Remains of the Day (title of novel by Kazuo Ishiguro)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I see it, and long for its extension<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The drawing of darkness over light<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It gives me cover over my present failures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inaction and forward motion intersect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And fight over my soul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In those waning moments of daylight\u2019s decline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I just watch, an outsider to my own struggles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marking and recording<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So that when the sun sets I can simply call it a day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And claim to start fresh in the morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But in those minutes when the sky blushes deep red<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With pride or perhaps with some shame<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I take my desire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For love, for connection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And put it slowly to sleep<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It fidgets-it aches with energies unused<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But I prevail, before the brightness finally falls. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see it, and long for its extension The drawing of darkness over light It gives me cover over my present failures Inaction and forward motion intersect And fight over my soul. In those waning moments of daylight\u2019s decline I just watch, an outsider to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51832","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\/959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51850,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51832\/revisions\/51850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}