{"id":100318,"date":"2012-11-22T20:58:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T01:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100318\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-formulates-fabulous-fables\/"},"modified":"2012-11-22T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T01:58:26","slug":"cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-formulates-fabulous-fables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100318\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-formulates-fabulous-fables\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Formulates Fabulous Fables!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#ff0000\"><strong><em>This is a special preview for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/100322\/the-friday-fling-formulates-fabulous-fables\/#comment-297674\">CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge<\/a>. \u00a0Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EST. \u00a0Which it just did a few minutes ago!<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=CPCBanner.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/CPCBanner.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Banner\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Friday Fling #207, for November 23rd 2012<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Thanksgiving is a time when we commemorate the Pilgrims&#8217; achievement in beginning a successful colony in Massachusetts by following their lead at this time of year by more or less recreating the feast they held celebrating their survival and success.  In the process of getting to that point and beyond, they taught us by their example valuable lessons in courage and perseverance which can always inspire.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">So we thought it would be appropriate to <\/font><font color=\"#800080\">write about some lesson you learned or one which which you believe can teach a valuable lesson. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">There is a format which is specifically designed to teach lessons by telling a story with a &#8220;moral.&#8221;  It&#8217;s called the <\/font><font color=\"#800080\">Fable.  It can be any length, and rhyme, flow or not.  The only requirement is that it tells a story and ends with a &#8220;moral&#8221; or summarizes the lesson the storytelling was intended to teach.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#800080\"><strong>This week the Friday Fling writes fables about life lessons!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Be sure to save time to read and comment thankfully on your fellow Pals&#8217; fabulous fables.  Then go shopping or whatever and see if it teaches you a valuable lesson!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Fickle Finger of Fate Award for November 16th<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Tony!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=111612numistry.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/111612numistry.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"111612 numistry\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=20071121-first-thanksgiving.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/20071121-first-thanksgiving.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=First-Thanksgiving-Pilgrims.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/First-Thanksgiving-Pilgrims.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=bcf8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/bcf8.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. \u00a0Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EST. \u00a0Which it just did a few minutes ago! Friday Fling #207, for November 23rd 2012 Thanksgiving is a time when we commemorate the Pilgrims&#8217; achievement in beginning a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}