{"id":65128,"date":"2020-06-27T13:03:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65128"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:03:01","slug":"hour-4-the-devil-in-the-drapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-4-the-devil-in-the-drapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4: The Devil in the Drapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It took years for me to know that you were not real.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead of brimstone and fire, you were made of light shining through the top of my curtains and my imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every night before I closed my eyes, you peered down on me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every night, I prayed that God would make me good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day, I knew that you made me bad;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No Sunday School lesson or offerings to the white plastic miniature chapel would absolve my sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then I learned about light and dark and shadows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I learned about grace and salvation and forgiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It took years for me to learn that you are not real.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took years for me to know that you were not real. Instead of brimstone and fire, you were made of light shining through the top of my curtains and my imagination. Every night before I closed my eyes, you peered down on me. Every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65128","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65156,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65128\/revisions\/65156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}