{"id":88774,"date":"2021-06-26T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88774"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:42:42","slug":"black-dog-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/black-dog-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Dog\u2014Hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cBig Black Dog\u201d<br \/>\nChurchill coined depression<br \/>\nI\u2019m no stranger to that Dog<br \/>\nThat slowly slinks in with bite\u2014<br \/>\nThe Dog is in for another visit<br \/>\nDimming light<br \/>\nPushing me into the abyss<br \/>\nA void that doesn\u2019t last;<br \/>\nAs how can darkness be forever?<br \/>\nBeloved Creator, always there<br \/>\nShowing me hope<br \/>\nWith heart rocks<br \/>\nTo guide the way<br \/>\nUncovering a life<br \/>\nUp from the abyss<br \/>\nI emerge with giggles and delight<br \/>\nMy path is lighter without the heaviness<br \/>\nNo more exhaustion<br \/>\nNow no longer blindly falling into the abyss<br \/>\nEmerging<br \/>\nA Joyful mouth<br \/>\nPregnant with a smile<br \/>\nThankful for restored light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cBig Black Dog\u201d Churchill coined depression I\u2019m no stranger to that Dog That slowly slinks in with bite\u2014 The Dog is in for another visit Dimming light Pushing me into the abyss A void that doesn\u2019t last; As how can darkness be forever? Beloved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88774","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\/1345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89000,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88774\/revisions\/89000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}