{"id":70199,"date":"2020-06-27T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70199"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:15:48","slug":"6-pm-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/6-pm-3\/","title":{"rendered":"6 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down the deserted road<br \/>\nI walk<br \/>\nunable to stop myself<br \/>\nurgently trying to get there<br \/>\nthough I don&#8217;t know why<br \/>\nexactly<\/p>\n<p>The bell from the old church<br \/>\nstill rings out the hour<br \/>\ntonight though especially<br \/>\nit just seems so creepy<\/p>\n<p>The street lights seem<br \/>\ndarker than usual tonight<br \/>\nas I make my way into this<br \/>\nhallowed, eternal<br \/>\nresting place<\/p>\n<p>I know where I&#8217;m going<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been here at least a<br \/>\nthousand times<br \/>\nI could do it blindfolded<\/p>\n<p>Up three statues<br \/>\nleft by the old pine<br \/>\nup another four statues<br \/>\nback one row from the<br \/>\nroad<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t seem to keep your<br \/>\nspace neat and tidy<br \/>\nas I pick old dead leaves<br \/>\noff and brush the dirt away<\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t be here this late<br \/>\nso close to midnight<br \/>\nespecially not on Halloween<br \/>\nbut I know a guy, and he lets me<br \/>\nin after hours<\/p>\n<p>I can feel a chill wind<br \/>\npicking up and I smell the<br \/>\nstorm rolling in<br \/>\nwhen I hear a voice behind me<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, We&#8217;ve been expecting you<br \/>\nand have prepared this place for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down the deserted road I walk unable to stop myself urgently trying to get there though I don&#8217;t know why exactly The bell from the old church still rings out the hour tonight though especially it just seems so creepy The street lights seem darker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70199","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\/1290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70203,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70199\/revisions\/70203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}