{"id":8226,"date":"2015-06-13T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:53:11","slug":"4-poem-for-nick-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/4-poem-for-nick-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"#4 Poem for Nick Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#4 Poem for Nick Drake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Strange that I\u2019d never heard<br \/>\nthe haunting words you wrote.<br \/>\nNot once had I reveled in the<br \/>\ndarkness found between the notes.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have been in your room,<br \/>\nstood at the round window you had there.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve gazed, misty across the meadows<br \/>\nthat felt the weight of your thoughtful stare.<\/p>\n<p>I see you were one not sad, but sick<br \/>\nthe gloom that consumed you organically grown,<br \/>\nwhile your light long fingers danced on strings<br \/>\nwords and melodies were born straight from bone.<\/p>\n<p>My soul knows you, Nick, as a quiet man.<br \/>\nYour laughter comes from another room.<br \/>\nYour sadness comes close now with each careful word<br \/>\nI find you everywhere now, like the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#4 Poem for Nick Drake Strange that I\u2019d never heard the haunting words you wrote. Not once had I reveled in the darkness found between the notes. I think I have been in your room, stood at the round window you had there. I\u2019ve gazed,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,1],"tags":[506],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-uncategorized","tag-poemsaboutmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8231,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}