{"id":3,"date":"2008-06-11T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T03:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2013-05-25T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T14:54:01","slug":"risk-the-dark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Risk The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Inspiration:<\/em> I take my inspiration from the events of life, mine and others. <em>Risk The Dark<\/em> came from watching what happens when people avoid dealing with the dark parts of their journeys&#8211;grief, abuse, addiction, fear of success&#8211;while hearing them say they are always <em>chasing the light&#8211;that which is good in life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One day I wondered, how can we find the light if we are caught in the dark? So the first stanza of the poem wrote itself.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sometimes to see the light<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You have to risk the dark<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">You have to walk down the alley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Where the angry dog barks . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Play poem below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/audio\/Risk_The_Dark.mp3\">Risk The Dark<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Risk The Dark' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_twitter' st_title='Risk The Dark' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Risk The Dark' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis\r<\/span>' st_title='Risk The Dark' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3' displayText='share'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiration: I take my inspiration from the events of life, mine and others. Risk The Dark came from watching what happens when people avoid dealing with the dark parts of their journeys&#8211;grief, abuse, addiction, fear of success&#8211;while hearing them say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Risk The Dark' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_twitter' st_title='Risk The Dark' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Risk The Dark' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis\r<\/span>' st_title='Risk The Dark' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=3' displayText='share'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}