{"id":1797,"date":"2013-06-25T04:07:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2017-07-12T02:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:51:49","slug":"it-gets-late-before-it-gets-dark-by-whitney-walters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/it-gets-late-before-it-gets-dark-by-whitney-walters\/","title":{"rendered":"It Gets Late Before It Gets Dark by Whitney Walters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1798 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light1.jpg\" alt=\"light1\" width=\"766\" height=\"379\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light1.jpg 1277w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light1-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light1-1024x505.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 766px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 766\/379;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">It Gets Late Before It Gets Dark<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Whitney Walters<\/p>\n<p>I wait for the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Heat lightning stretches across the sky&#8217;s horizon.<br \/>\nI stand outside,<br \/>\nMesmerized by the rhythm of spider-web flashes.<br \/>\nSwirling warm and cool summer wind comforts.<br \/>\nMy hair dances,<br \/>\nAwake and stimulated by the electric environment.<\/p>\n<p>Surely the rain is calling, as the sirens sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wait for the rain.<\/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":[408,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-poems","category-summer-contest-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","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=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}