{"id":55033,"date":"2019-06-23T00:44:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55033"},"modified":"2019-06-23T00:44:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:44:43","slug":"prompt-16-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-16-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long hard road,<br \/>\nlay ahead of me.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t know how long it was,<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t know when it would end.<br \/>\nSo I kept walking through the forages<br \/>\ncutting past my doubts<br \/>\nfacing my fears,<br \/>\nall the while<br \/>\nDealing with the reality of the situation.<br \/>\nThat nobody could save me,<br \/>\nOnly I could save myself<br \/>\nThe truth was, I was all alone.<\/p>\n<p>Paranoia preyed at my sanity<br \/>\nshaking the roots of everything I believed in&#8230;<br \/>\nI started questioning myself<br \/>\nhoping the answers would appear.<\/p>\n<p>But it didn&#8217;t happen like that way.<br \/>\nI fought tooth and nail<br \/>\nand hard for myself.<br \/>\nBut,sometimes that too wasn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>It was cold and unforgiving,<br \/>\nTreacherous &#8230;<br \/>\nMy body started caving in,<br \/>\nMy mind still focused.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55172\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55172\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1443521156453-f82c842b6e7f-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1443521156453-f82c842b6e7f-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1443521156453-f82c842b6e7f.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">img Davide Foti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I kept moving on,<br \/>\neven when I didn&#8217;t have<br \/>\nthe strength in my legs to walk<br \/>\nI crawled&#8230;.<br \/>\nTrained my eyes<br \/>\nto look for the light<br \/>\nat the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Until one day a<br \/>\nglimmer of light<br \/>\ncaught my eye.<br \/>\nI focused all my energy<br \/>\ntowards the light,<br \/>\nBefore I knew it,<br \/>\nthe ordeal was over.<\/p>\n<p>I survived!<br \/>\nI made it out alive!<\/p>\n<p>-Janice Raquela Mendonca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long hard road, lay ahead of me. I didn&#8217;t know how long it was, I didn&#8217;t know when it would end. So I kept walking through the forages cutting past my doubts facing my fears, all the while Dealing with the reality of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,2114,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55033","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55192,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55033\/revisions\/55192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}