{"id":342,"date":"2022-11-05T01:12:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T01:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/?p=342"},"modified":"2022-11-05T01:12:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T01:12:15","slug":"the-dark-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am The Dark Poet,<br>Rhyming everything that is real,<br>I write about life,<br>Whilst I\u2019m still able to feel,<br><br>I am The Dark Poet,<br>Damaged, lost and lonely,<br>I speak the truth,<br>And the truth only,<br><br>I am The Dark Poet,<br>Poems about drink and drugs,<br>A life of mental health,<br>Living in a world surrounded by criminals and thugs,<br><br>I am The Dark Poet,<br>Living a life that wants to break me,<br>I write down my words of pain,<br>So for five seconds we can all be free,<br><br>I am The Dark Poet,<br>And hardship is a fact,<br>But my poems will speak real,<br>Cos in order to stay alive I made a pact,<br><br>I am The Dark Poet,<br>Poetry for the hurt,<br>For myself and others,<br>Trying to survive in the dirt,<br><br>I am The Dark Poet,<br>Never to surrender nor concede,<br>Using my pen to fight the struggle,<br>Whilst my heart does nothing but bleed,<br><br>This life is so goddamn hard,<br>And don\u2019t we all know it,<br>Because I was born Callum Lee,<br>But I will die as The Dark Poet.<br><br><br>Wrote on 18\/09\/2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am The Dark Poet,Rhyming everything that is real,I write about life,Whilst I\u2019m still able to feel, I am The Dark Poet,Damaged, lost and lonely,I speak the truth,And the truth only, I am The Dark Poet,Poems about drink and drugs,A life of mental health,Living in a world surrounded by criminals and thugs, I am The&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-342","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\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}