{"id":103382,"date":"2013-02-12T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/103382\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-offers-advice-to-the-lovelorn\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:45:07","slug":"cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-offers-advice-to-the-lovelorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/103382\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-offers-advice-to-the-lovelorn\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Offers Advice To The Lovelorn!"},"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 CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. \u00a0Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 P.M. EST.<\/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 #219 for February\u00a0 15th 2013<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Yesterday was Valentine&#8217;s Day, a special day for people to express their love for one another.\u00a0 But unfortunately not everyone is on the receiving end on Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Recently the Queen of the &#8220;love columnists,&#8221; Dear Abby&#8217;s Abigail Van Buren, passed away.\u00a0 That got us to thinking: who will give advice to the lovelorn now?\u00a0 How about you?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Since it might take some time to write out your advice, no format is suggested this week.\u00a0 Just any poetic way you prefer.<\/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 offers poetic advice to the lovelorn!<\/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 advisedly on your fellow Pals&#8217; poetic profferings.\u00a0 Then be advised to enjoy this weekend!<\/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\u00a0 February 8th<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Barbara!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/02fe9ad8-2fc0-4c67-bca1-6df039065098_zps7905ba6c.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/02fe9ad8-2fc0-4c67-bca1-6df039065098_zps7905ba6c.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 02fe9ad8-2fc0-4c67-bca1-6df039065098_zps7905ba6c.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/banner_lovelorn_2_zps51be13de.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/banner_lovelorn_2_zps51be13de.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo banner_lovelorn_2_zps51be13de.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/lovelorn_cover_zps6f43f1b6.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/lovelorn_cover_zps6f43f1b6.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo lovelorn_cover_zps6f43f1b6.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/DearAbby_zps5d8652d6.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/DearAbby_zps5d8652d6.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo DearAbby_zps5d8652d6.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/dearabby_zps44d39c34.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/dearabby_zps44d39c34.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo dearabby_zps44d39c34.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/DearAbby_zps0a8f3fc9.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/DearAbby_zps0a8f3fc9.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo DearAbby_zps0a8f3fc9.jpg\" \/><\/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 P.M. EST. Friday Fling #219 for February\u00a0 15th 2013 Yesterday was Valentine&#8217;s Day, a special day for people to express their love for one another.\u00a0 But unfortunately not everyone is [&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-103382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103382","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=103382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}