{"id":46153,"date":"2017-07-16T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/?p=46153"},"modified":"2017-07-16T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T13:58:00","slug":"night-and-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/poetry\/night-and-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Night and Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThis morning I was here<br>\nThe place I am right now<br>\nThis beautiful night<br>\nI swam in the ocean<br>\nJust a few hundred yards from here<br>\nThe ocean I cannot see<br>\nBut I can still hear\nThe skies were bright<br>\nThe beach sand was filled with people<br>\nUmbrellas, happy families<br>\nToddlers in awe<br>\nI sat on my paddle board<br>\nHundreds of yards off the shore\nSurrendering to the greater power<br>\nI floated<br>\nThe ocean surface moved the me<br>\nI watched the beach<br>\nAnd all of the people<br>\nThen gazing out<br>\nTo the seemingly endless ocean<br>\nThe horizon<br>\nIts beauty was mesmerizing\nBut now I sit in darkness<br>\nOn this boardwalk.<br>\nHardly anyone here<br>\nSomeone occasionally riding by<br>\nOr walking past me<br>\nI am looking out into darkness<br>\nBut I hear waves, constant waves<br>\nThe ocean\nIts sound are constant<br>\nThe waves landing on the shores<br>\nSome are louder than others<br>\nSome crash<br>\nSome fall so softly<br>\nAnd others whisper<br>\nAnd for brief moments<br>\nSeconds between those sounds<br>\nI hear the soft breeze of the night\nAnd yet when I leave my thoughts<br>\nBeyond these beautiful sounds<br>\nThey seem to blend into nothing<br>\nSilence<br>\nBeautiful silence\nCan this be the place<br>\nThe place I was earlier today<br>\nThis exact same place<br>\nThe things that have been put here<br>\nThis boardwalk, the street signs<br>\nJupiter<br>\nSmiling down on me from my right<br>\nReassure me that it is\nAnd though dark<br>\nJust as beautiful as it was hours ago<br>\nBut yet so different<br>\nOr is it really different at all\nJoe Fox<br>\n9 PM, July 16, 2017\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was here The place I am right now This beautiful night I swam in the ocean Just a few hundred yards from here The ocean I cannot see But I can still hear The skies were bright The beach sand was filled with people Umbrellas, happy families Toddlers in awe I sat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}