{"id":70833,"date":"2020-06-27T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70833"},"modified":"2020-07-01T00:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T04:33:14","slug":"prompt-12-hour-12-cold-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-12-hour-12-cold-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 12, Hour 12 &#8211; Cold Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sentence picked from The Essex Serpant, by Sarah Perry: &#8220;A young man walks down by the banks of the Blackwater under the full cold moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dark green waters take on nightly shades, and now,<\/p>\n<p>Blackwater Bay, would make a fine name for such a scene.<\/p>\n<p>Cold weather, river banks and a full moon strain the senses &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Is this repose calm?<\/p>\n<p>Or is the night eerie in design?<\/p>\n<p>A night for walks, is one for the imagination &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Yet alone with thoughts is full company.<\/p>\n<p>Young is the night by and large,<\/p>\n<p>But the spirit feels aged under the moon&#8217;s weight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Down the road, a man, young, strolls along<\/p>\n<p>With light steps, and placid shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>For him, the shadows dance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentence picked from The Essex Serpant, by Sarah Perry: &#8220;A young man walks down by the banks of the Blackwater under the full cold moon.&#8221; &nbsp; Dark green waters take on nightly shades, and now, Blackwater Bay, would make a fine name for such a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70833","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\/1279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77791,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70833\/revisions\/77791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}