{"id":96663,"date":"2021-06-26T20:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96663"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:01:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:01:33","slug":"hour-12-halfway-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-12-halfway-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 12: Halfway Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the river and I am the shore, uncertain and afloat<\/p>\n<p>Tumbling in the dark, and well<\/p>\n<p>They say I\u2019m only twenty-five<\/p>\n<p>So how can I fall, when the sun has just arrived?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so bright, I should be able to see into the horizon<\/p>\n<p>The sunlight that flies in<\/p>\n<p>Into my eyes, well now I\u2019m blinded<\/p>\n<p>And reminded,<\/p>\n<p>That there\u2019s no reason for my fears,<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>The realization, did not seem to remove them<\/p>\n<p>Neither reprove them<\/p>\n<p>And so if there\u2019s no illness, there\u2019s no cure,<\/p>\n<p>But my soul, is still trapped<\/p>\n<p>Wrapped, in a dark cloud of doubt,<\/p>\n<p>And no matter how many pills they come out<\/p>\n<p>With, none work because I am not ill<\/p>\n<p>Only ailing<\/p>\n<p>And the road, through hardly assailing,<\/p>\n<p>Is not a friend,<\/p>\n<p>With no end in sight, I turn around and<\/p>\n<p>And now another year has gone by,<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m halfway through<\/p>\n<p>And used to the dark cloud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the river and I am the shore, uncertain and afloat Tumbling in the dark, and well They say I\u2019m only twenty-five So how can I fall, when the sun has just arrived? It\u2019s so bright, I should be able to see into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96663","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\/930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96814,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96663\/revisions\/96814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}