{"id":2572,"date":"2025-12-22T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:16:33","slug":"writing-challenge-2025-22-sleepless-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/writing-challenge-2025-22-sleepless-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Challenge 2025 \u2013 22 \u2013 Sleepless (Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\n<i>This was written December 19th, 2025<\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Sleepless<\/h2>\r\n<p>\r\nThere once was a man,<br \/>\r\nHad come up with a plan,<br \/>\r\nEveryday would once write,<br \/>\r\nThis all seemed oh so right.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nYet here he was on this trip,<br \/>\r\nSlept he but had, not a bit,<br \/>\r\nCould he really, this complete,<br \/>\r\nBefore energy did deplete?\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nWell that he tried,<br \/>\r\nWith his brain fried,<br \/>\r\nAnd this ballad,<br \/>\r\nIs all he had.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<i><b>Due to circumstances, I had limited time, and in order to keep up with the habit, I spent roughly 5 minutes on this one. Ironically,\r\nI&#8217;m not unhappy with the results of this bit of meta writing.<\/b><\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written December 19th, 2025 Sleepless There once was a man, Had come up with a plan, Everyday would once write, This all seemed oh so right. Yet here he was on this trip, Slept he but had, not a bit, Could he really, this complete, Before energy did deplete? Well that he tried, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/writing-challenge-2025-22-sleepless-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing Challenge 2025 \u2013 22 \u2013 Sleepless (Poem)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}