{"id":6714,"date":"2015-06-13T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2015-06-13T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:24:49","slug":"hour-1-bitter-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-1-bitter-endings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1: Bitter Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Bitter Endings<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Too bright the light<\/p>\n<p>For these old eyes<\/p>\n<p>They see only darkness now<\/p>\n<p>Turn down the sun<\/p>\n<p>Let light be damned<\/p>\n<p>Let dawn await my dusk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Too fast the world<\/p>\n<p>For these old bones<\/p>\n<p>They seek only comfort now<\/p>\n<p>Turn off the gears<\/p>\n<p>Let progress pause<\/p>\n<p>Hold tomorrow \u2018til my day is done<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Too cold the wind<\/p>\n<p>For this old skin<\/p>\n<p>Worn thin as paper now<\/p>\n<p>Turn up the heat<\/p>\n<p>Let oceans rise<\/p>\n<p>Someone else will pay my bill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Too strange the times<\/p>\n<p>For this old mind<\/p>\n<p>It cannot comprehend<\/p>\n<p>Turn back the clock<\/p>\n<p>Undo the lies<\/p>\n<p>The truest way is mine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turn down, turn off<\/p>\n<p>Turn up, turn back<\/p>\n<p>What harm?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be gone soon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Too bright, too fast<\/p>\n<p>Too cold, too strange<\/p>\n<p>Though it may be<\/p>\n<p>Too late for you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitter Endings Too bright the light For these old eyes They see only darkness now Turn down the sun Let light be damned Let dawn await my dusk &nbsp; Too fast the world For these old bones They seek only comfort now Turn off the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714","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\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}