{"id":104336,"date":"2013-03-13T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/104336\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-writes-irish\/"},"modified":"2013-03-13T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T04:40:11","slug":"cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-writes-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/104336\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-writes-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Writes Irish!"},"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. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT.<\/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\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Friday Fling #223 for March 15th 2013<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is Sunday, and one of our personal favorite formats is the Limerick, an Irish format poem of five lines in more or less 9-9-6-6-9 syllables and AABBA rhyme, usually with a punchline at the end which makes a joke or a telling point.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#800080\"><strong>Any topic about Irish culture is suggested!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#800080\"><strong>This week the Friday Fling fetes the Irish Limerick!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Be sure to save time to read and comment like an old sod, on your fellow Pals&#8217; Paddy poetry.  Then go find your own pot o&#8217; gold on this St. Partick&#8217;s Day 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 March 8th<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Michelle!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/572db74c-ade5-46ba-9c74-1faa18054425_zps6662ec2d.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/572db74c-ade5-46ba-9c74-1faa18054425_zps6662ec2d.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 572db74c-ade5-46ba-9c74-1faa18054425_zps6662ec2d.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/luck-of-the-irish_zps8213ae2f.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/luck-of-the-irish_zps8213ae2f.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo luck-of-the-irish_zps8213ae2f.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/rainbow-gold_zps57e750c3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/rainbow-gold_zps57e750c3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo rainbow-gold_zps57e750c3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/IMGP0407_zps21542436.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/IMGP0407_zps21542436.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo IMGP0407_zps21542436.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/leprechaun_zpscb901eab.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/leprechaun_zpscb901eab.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo leprechaun_zpscb901eab.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.beta.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/St_Patricks_Day_zps5616b8c5.gif.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/St_Patricks_Day_zps5616b8c5.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo St_Patricks_Day_zps5616b8c5.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT. Friday Fling #223 for March 15th 2013 St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is Sunday, and one of our personal favorite formats is the Limerick, an Irish format poem of five [&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-104336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104336","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=104336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}