{"id":1168,"date":"2012-02-22T00:55:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2017-07-11T06:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T06:09:36","slug":"the-last-storm-by-brian-lawson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-last-storm-by-brian-lawson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Storm by Brian Lawson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brianl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1169 lazyload\" title=\"brianl\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brianl-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brianl-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brianl.jpg 422w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/228;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Last Storm<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Brian Lawson<\/p>\n<p>It stormed this evening.<\/p>\n<p>It was invigorating.<\/p>\n<p>The wind bent the trees and turned the rain into a water wall.<\/p>\n<p>The hail fell as if God had just emptied his ice tray.<\/p>\n<p>The thunder roared like a grizzly in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The lightning flashed sharp shards of knife-like light.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that summer saved the best one for last.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p>Brian Lawson lives in Windsor, Virginia. He is a 2010 graduate of Old Dominion University with a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in English. He has self-published 2 books of poetry entitled: Contemplations of Essence: Poems and Haikus and The Turning year. Both collections appeared in 2010. Lawson also writes blogs on Hubpages.com mostly about WWE wrestling. He is working on 2 novels and various short stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Storm by Brian Lawson It stormed this evening. It was invigorating. The wind bent the trees and turned the rain into a water wall. The hail fell as if God had just emptied his ice tray. The thunder roared like a grizzly in the sky. The lightning flashed sharp shards of knife-like light&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,408,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-123","category-nature-poems","category-summer-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}