{"id":97518,"date":"2021-06-26T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97518"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:01:19","slug":"hour-9-common-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-9-common-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9: Common Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always darkest before the dawn<\/p>\n<p>When the stars have all burned out<\/p>\n<p>The moon has sunk low and sun has stubbornly refused to rise<\/p>\n<p>The world is blanketed in the blackest of blacks<\/p>\n<p>And everything is still<\/p>\n<p>Voices are silenced<\/p>\n<p>Breath is held<\/p>\n<p>The world waits<\/p>\n<p>Waits to see if the promise of dawn will be fulfilled<\/p>\n<p>And for one excruciating moment<\/p>\n<p>It seems that it never will<\/p>\n<p>Then a faint glow appears on the horizon<\/p>\n<p>And the shadows slowly recede<\/p>\n<p>The dawn breaks<\/p>\n<p>The world breathes<\/p>\n<p>And life goes on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always darkest before the dawn When the stars have all burned out The moon has sunk low and sun has stubbornly refused to rise The world is blanketed in the blackest of blacks And everything is still Voices are silenced Breath is held The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97518","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\/2454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97560,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97518\/revisions\/97560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}