{"id":87466,"date":"2021-06-26T09:13:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87466"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:13:13","slug":"like-dreams-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/like-dreams-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Dreams on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With every passing second<\/p>\n<p>And racing of the clock<\/p>\n<p>I take a quick leak at the back of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Into my bed, I jump once again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so tired of counting sheep;<\/p>\n<p>And every passing look is caught by abstract images<\/p>\n<p>Scaring me into an eye shut.<\/p>\n<p>Left turn to<\/p>\n<p>Right turn into<\/p>\n<p>The warmth of my own perspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Like the blow to the soft spot of Goliath,<\/p>\n<p>I take a hit from nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>Next thing I realise, are my eyes<\/p>\n<p>Plagued by a bright light.<\/p>\n<p>It was night two seconds ago.<\/p>\n<p>Where am I now?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With every passing second And racing of the clock I take a quick leak at the back of the house. Into my bed, I jump once again. I&#8217;m so tired of counting sheep; And every passing look is caught by abstract images Scaring me into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2142],"class_list":["post-87466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-promptforhourone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87466","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\/1348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87621,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87466\/revisions\/87621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}