{"id":67184,"date":"2020-06-27T15:27:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67184"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:27:49","slug":"season-of-the-nightly-terrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/season-of-the-nightly-terrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of the Nightly Terrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few streets away, a bridge connects two neighborhoods.<br \/>\nIn my dreams, there he stands, the faceless man<br \/>\nDressed in a tattered suit, he searches for a sound<br \/>\nHidden in the closet of my bedroom, I shudder silently<br \/>\nThe vibrations alone attract him closer to my home<br \/>\nHe walks in the middle of the road<br \/>\nThe fog separating with fear before him<br \/>\nMoonlight pierces through the clouds,<br \/>\nAnd illuminates his presence, a petrifying sight,<br \/>\nWith each breath that I take, he comes closer,<br \/>\nUntil he stands right before my door,<br \/>\nHis worn out boots visible from underneath.<br \/>\nThe doorknob turns and before he can creep inside,<br \/>\nI wake up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few streets away, a bridge connects two neighborhoods. In my dreams, there he stands, the faceless man Dressed in a tattered suit, he searches for a sound Hidden in the closet of my bedroom, I shudder silently The vibrations alone attract him closer to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67184","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\/1280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67214,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67184\/revisions\/67214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}