{"id":95363,"date":"2021-06-26T18:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95363"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:29:56","slug":"the-power-of-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-power-of-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The twinkling lights still hang,<\/p>\n<p>waiting to be packed up,<\/p>\n<p>back to their dark boxes, in basements everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The New Year has slunk in,<\/p>\n<p>the Bethlehem story hovers hoping<\/p>\n<p>to change hearts,<\/p>\n<p>revive the weary poised to drop<\/p>\n<p>but the waiting darkness pulls<\/p>\n<p>many away from the light<\/p>\n<p>and the power of the choice they&#8217;ve had all along.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hour 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twinkling lights still hang, waiting to be packed up, back to their dark boxes, in basements everywhere. The New Year has slunk in, the Bethlehem story hovers hoping to change hearts, revive the weary poised to drop but the waiting darkness pulls many away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95363","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\/1350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95525,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95363\/revisions\/95525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}