{"id":171,"date":"2022-10-18T00:10:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T00:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/?p=171"},"modified":"2022-10-27T06:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T06:27:40","slug":"the-light-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"The Light At Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The eyes in the dark,<br>Watch me as I smoke,<br>They continue to torture me,<br>Like a perverted kind of joke,<br>They stare at me,<br>And I stare right back,<br>A flicker of light,<br>I ask, is it just a cat?<br>My mind starts going mad,<br>With all different scenarios,<br>I think I hear it howl,<br>As the wind blows,<br>As I focus,<br>And focus some more,<br>It gets brighter and brighter,<br>But it\u2019s in a different place than before,<br>I finish my fag,<br>But my eyes are now tranced,<br>I blink several times,<br>But it\u2019s gone in a glance,<br>I question myself,<br>Myself questions me,<br>And in my head I ask,<br>What the hell did I just see?<br>Was it a wolf?<br>Or something unknown,<br>If only there was daylight,<br>Its appearance could be shown,<br>Fear,<br>Still lingering my mind,<br>I am in the witching hour,<br>I shouldn\u2019t be awake at this time,<br>Was it a spirit?<br>Or a wondering ghoul,<br>Or just a reflection,<br>Making me look a fool,<br>Whatever it was,<br>Shining so bright,<br>I know for certain,<br>I won\u2019t sleep well tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrote on 31\/05\/2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eyes in the dark,Watch me as I smoke,They continue to torture me,Like a perverted kind of joke,They stare at me,And I stare right back,A flicker of light,I ask, is it just a cat?My mind starts going mad,With all different scenarios,I think I hear it howl,As the wind blows,As I focus,And focus some more,It gets&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}