{"id":98159,"date":"2021-06-26T21:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98159"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:00:40","slug":"hour-13-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-13-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 13: Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One night I am awoken and much to my surprise<br \/>\nI see a man beside my bed and I open wide my eyes<br \/>\nFor some strange reason I feel no fear<br \/>\nand he slowly comes my way<br \/>\nHe sits down in the chair beside<br \/>\nMy bed as if to stay.<br \/>\nFor long moments silence swirls around<br \/>\nIt is comfortable to bear<br \/>\nThe stranger slowly reaches down<br \/>\nHis hand gently strokes my hair.<br \/>\nIn a quiet voice I ask, \u201cWhy are you here?\u201d<br \/>\nHe just smiles and with an echo he answers<br \/>\n \u201cMy child, do not fear.\u201d<br \/>\nI slowly nod as I turn to sit on the edge of my bed.<br \/>\nThe stranger encouragingly gazes, and then<br \/>\nI feel a slight feeling of dread.<br \/>\nI take my time to look around and see me sleeping still<br \/>\nBut wait\u2026.I must be mistaken\u2026..<br \/>\nAs the knowledge begins to fill my head<br \/>\nI look back at the man.<br \/>\nWith a gentle sigh he acknowledges me<br \/>\nCarefully taking my hand.<br \/>\nWith one last look at my still form<br \/>\nI follow the stranger out of sight.<br \/>\nThis is how I came to meet Death<br \/>\nOne dark and mellow night.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night I am awoken and much to my surprise I see a man beside my bed and I open wide my eyes For some strange reason I feel no fear and he slowly comes my way He sits down in the chair beside My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98245,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159\/revisions\/98245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}