{"id":95171,"date":"2021-06-26T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95171"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:00:26","slug":"brightest-hour-darkest-day-half-marathon-hour-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/brightest-hour-darkest-day-half-marathon-hour-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightest Hour, Darkest Day (Half Marathon Hour 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michellia Wilson<br \/>\nPoetry Marathon Hour 11 (2021)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRIGHTEST HOUR, DARKEST DAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the brightest hour<br \/>\nof my darkest day,<br \/>\nI find the fire lit up white,<br \/>\ncrackling with heat \u2013<\/p>\n<p>I dare you to tell me<br \/>\nto walk on that fire,<br \/>\nto step beyond the boundaries,<br \/>\nto relinquish myself<br \/>\nto the other side;<\/p>\n<p>I dare you to sing a tune,<br \/>\nto keep the beat,<br \/>\npounding ancient drums<br \/>\nagainst a spring sunset \u2013<\/p>\n<p>I dare you to cross the threshold,<br \/>\ntake a look at what keeps<br \/>\nmy heart held captive<br \/>\nin a restless dance of spirit;<\/p>\n<p>I dare you to try and extinguish<br \/>\nthe intense light,<br \/>\nof the brightest hour<br \/>\nof my darkest day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michellia Wilson Poetry Marathon Hour 11 (2021) &nbsp; BRIGHTEST HOUR, DARKEST DAY In the brightest hour of my darkest day, I find the fire lit up white, crackling with heat \u2013 I dare you to tell me to walk on that fire, to step beyond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95171","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95890,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95171\/revisions\/95890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}