{"id":52238,"date":"2019-06-22T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52238"},"modified":"2019-06-22T18:43:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:43:05","slug":"written-in-hour-4-the-hour-i-first-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/written-in-hour-4-the-hour-i-first-believed\/","title":{"rendered":"Written in Hour 4 &#8211; The Hour I First Believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huddled inside a shelter<\/p>\n<p>of my own thoughts,<\/p>\n<p>doubt the stakes in the ground,<\/p>\n<p>self-loathing poles stretched tight<\/p>\n<p>as fear created the covering above.<\/p>\n<p>Hope waited outside the door,<\/p>\n<p>patiently looking for entry,<\/p>\n<p>and love sneaked in<\/p>\n<p>through the cracks.<\/p>\n<p>Any storms outside<\/p>\n<p>were nothing<\/p>\n<p>compared to the tempest<\/p>\n<p>that raged within.<\/p>\n<p>The demons and shadows<\/p>\n<p>were slowly torn apart<\/p>\n<p>as the wind of fortitude<\/p>\n<p>and squall of resolve<\/p>\n<p>blew apart the darkness,<\/p>\n<p>and opened up to<\/p>\n<p>the light of realization<\/p>\n<p>and the beauty of inner strength.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huddled inside a shelter of my own thoughts, doubt the stakes in the ground, self-loathing poles stretched tight as fear created the covering above. Hope waited outside the door, patiently looking for entry, and love sneaked in through the cracks. Any storms outside were nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52238","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\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52423,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52238\/revisions\/52423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}