{"id":1401,"date":"1999-12-12T16:55:10","date_gmt":"1999-12-13T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2013-01-19T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T00:59:43","slug":"1401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1999\/12\/12\/1401\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hills peel off<br \/>\ninto an expanse of time<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;ll pass through too.<\/p>\n<p>Silhouetted, their worn and<br \/>\njagged shapes strung out,<br \/>\nlayer after layer,<br \/>\nbefore me.<\/p>\n<p>I face the cowardice<br \/>\nthat comes with solitude;<br \/>\nthe blood oozing from knee;<br \/>\nreminding me<br \/>\nof the finite nature<br \/>\nof this perception.<\/p>\n<p>Facing a yellowing sun,<br \/>\nI watch the dimming<br \/>\nof a star that gives us life<br \/>\nand serves as chronometer<br \/>\nof that life&#8217;s passing.<\/p>\n<p>The descent from this peak,<br \/>\nThis pinnacle,<br \/>\nlays ahead.<br \/>\nI face it with the<br \/>\ntrepidation that comes<br \/>\nfrom knowing,<br \/>\nthe courage that comes<br \/>\nfrom feeling,<br \/>\nand the winsome thought<br \/>\nof<br \/>\nwhat tomorrow brings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hills peel off<br \/> into an expanse of time<br \/> that I&#8217;ll pass through too.<\/p>\n<p>Silhouetted, their worn and<br \/> jagged shapes strung out,<br \/> layer after layer,<br \/> before me.<\/p>\n<p>I face the cowardice<br \/> that comes with solitude;<br \/> the blood oozing from knee;<br \/> reminding me<br \/> of the finite nature<br \/> of this perception.<\/p>\n<p>Facing [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-kisner-collection","category-nature","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}