{"id":57233,"date":"2019-06-23T06:49:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57233"},"modified":"2019-06-28T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:47:18","slug":"the-night-is-for-sleeping-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-night-is-for-sleeping-15\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night is for Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child<br \/>\nThey always told me<br \/>\nThe night is for sleeping<\/p>\n<p>When I got older<br \/>\nI discovered<br \/>\nThat wasn&#8217;t the only purpose<\/p>\n<p>The night is for secrets<br \/>\nTold in the dark<br \/>\nNot to be burned by the sun<\/p>\n<p>The night is for love<br \/>\nWhispered behind closed doors<br \/>\nSo no interloper can encroach <\/p>\n<p>The night is for music<br \/>\nWinding through the night<br \/>\nWrapping everyone up in its beauty<\/p>\n<p>The night is for dancing<br \/>\nTo beats that we hear<br \/>\nTo the tune of each other&#8217;s heart<\/p>\n<p>The night is for dreaming<br \/>\nDeep dark dreams<br \/>\nOur best hopes and worst nightmares<\/p>\n<p>And that is the only reason<br \/>\nAs far as I can see<br \/>\nWhy the night is for sleeping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child They always told me The night is for sleeping When I got older I discovered That wasn&#8217;t the only purpose The night is for secrets Told in the dark Not to be burned by the sun The night is for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57233","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58769,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57233\/revisions\/58769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}