{"id":69397,"date":"2020-06-27T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69397"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:50:15","slug":"light-up-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/light-up-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Light up the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

We built the treehouse up in the old hickory tree<\/span><\/p>\n

we would sleep up there<\/span><\/p>\n

to escape the heat from the little cottage\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

our grandfather built back when he was young and strong<\/span><\/p>\n

and not hunched over with age.<\/span><\/p>\n

At night, we would watch the dancing lights of the fireflies<\/span><\/p>\n

beckoning to their future mates.<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t lethargy that kept us lying there for hours,<\/span><\/p>\n

but the magic of sleeping just below the treeline<\/span><\/p>\n

with the sounds from below,<\/span><\/p>\n

a pleasant white noise.<\/span><\/p>\n

My brother wanted to trap some fireflies in a bottle to\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

use as a nightlight, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He tried to mask his cruelty by playing it off as some brilliant idea,<\/span><\/p>\n

but I knew better.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people are just jealous of those that light up the dark.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We built the treehouse up in the old hickory tree we would sleep up there to escape the heat from the little cottage\u00a0 our grandfather built back when he was young and strong and not hunched over with age. At night, we would watch the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136],"tags":[3597,3686,2376,2956],"class_list":["post-69397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-2020halfmarathon","tag-fireflies","tag-hour9","tag-prompt9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69397","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\/1252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69422,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69397\/revisions\/69422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}