{"id":90646,"date":"2021-06-26T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90646"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:44:50","slug":"before-darkness-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/before-darkness-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A blinding flash of light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So hot it fried<\/p>\n<p>our skin, roasted our muscles,<\/p>\n<p>melded our bones to the furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Disintegrated houses to piles of sand.<\/p>\n<p>Boiled oceans, making fish chowder.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Soup, soup everywhere\u2026but not an animal to eat it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dimmed and cooled,<\/p>\n<p>steam rose, then hardened.<\/p>\n<p>So cold it covered<\/p>\n<p>the barren land with ice,<\/p>\n<p>froze the air, making snow slushies<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daiquiris, daiquiris everywhere\u2026but nobody here for Happy Hour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just a big ball of ice<\/p>\n<p>when the darkness came.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness &nbsp; A blinding flash of light. &nbsp; So hot it fried our skin, roasted our muscles, melded our bones to the furniture. Disintegrated houses to piles of sand. Boiled oceans, making fish chowder. &nbsp; Soup, soup everywhere\u2026but not an animal to eat it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90646","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90707,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90646\/revisions\/90707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}