{"id":106878,"date":"2013-05-18T01:37:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T05:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106878\/poem-rude-awakening\/"},"modified":"2013-05-18T01:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T05:37:49","slug":"poem-rude-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106878\/poem-rude-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Rude Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This is my collab composition for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/106823\/saturday-share-come-one-come-all-17\/\">CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge<\/a>.  Angel Love&#8217;s key line was &#8220;As I slowly crept out of bed.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/CPCChallenges\/monkeysbed_zps475a4578.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/CPCChallenges\/monkeysbed_zps475a4578.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo monkeysbed_zps475a4578.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\"><strong>RUDE AWAKENING<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font><font size=\"6\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong> On a storm-tossed sea, aboard a pirate ship,<br \/>\n upon the clear blue sky, I bumped my head.<br \/>\n Unconscious until the ship had reached its slip, <br \/>\n my body and soul became consumed with dread;<br \/>\n and when I awoke, a beat my heart did skip:<br \/>\n ninety-nine monkeys were jumping on my bed!<br \/>\n Once awake, my mind began a new trip.<br \/>\n Fond memories of her lingered in my head. <br \/>\n Finding that all my senses had been fed,<br \/>\n I smiled and shrugged, and went back to bed! <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"> A Bettie&#8217;s Ottava Rima (ten lines) by RGD<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><strong> The poetic simeons who bounced a line: Angel Love (2), Jules (2).<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my collab composition for the CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge. Angel Love&#8217;s key line was &#8220;As I slowly crept out of bed.&#8221; \u00a0 RUDE AWAKENING On a storm-tossed sea, aboard a pirate ship, upon the clear blue sky, I bumped my head. Unconscious until the ship had reached its slip, my body and [&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-106878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106878","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=106878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}