{"id":112530,"date":"2013-10-31T00:28:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T04:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/112530\/poem-jack-o-lantern-lore\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T00:28:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T04:28:43","slug":"poem-jack-o-lantern-lore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/112530\/poem-jack-o-lantern-lore\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Jack-o-lantern Lore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was written for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/112450\/thematic-attic-thursday-creates-jack-o-lanterns-in-the-attic\/\">CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge<\/a>, <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>where Bettie&#8217;s theme is pumpkin carving and Halloween.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/CPCChallenges\/jacky_zpsf083fdae.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/CPCChallenges\/jacky_zpsf083fdae.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo jacky_zpsf083fdae.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#ff6600\"><strong>JACK-O-LANTERN LORE<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"5\" color=\"#ff6600\"><strong>Have you ever seen a pumpkin<br \/>\n carved by a bumpkin?<br \/>\n I have.<br \/>\n It&#8217;s really sumpkin.&#8217;<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"5\" color=\"#ff6600\"><strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">If you hire an intern<br \/>\n to carve your Jack-o-lantern,<br \/>\n you may become concerned<br \/>\n if that intern hasn&#8217;t learned<br \/>\n not to try to carve the face <br \/>\n with a lit candle already in there,<br \/>\n because you know<br \/>\n that intern will get burned!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Go ahead and carve the face. <br \/>\n Work at your very own pace.<br \/>\n Do not worry about disgrace.<br \/>\n Just remember to place<br \/>\n the eyes above the nose<br \/>\n and the nose where a nose usually grows.<br \/>\n If you didn&#8217;t, do you suppose<br \/>\n anyone would notice?\u00a0 Would Rose?<br \/>\n Who knows?<br \/>\n I know; let&#8217;s carve Joe&#8217;s<br \/>\n without a nose!<br \/>\n See how that goes!<br \/>\n Maybe Joe will say his Jack-o-lantern blows<br \/>\n without a nose.<br \/>\n That would be ironic, huh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Can I ask you a question?<br \/>\n If someone peed in a Jack-o-lantern<br \/>\n Would it become a John-o-lantern?<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\" color=\"#ff6600\"><strong> Are Jack O&#8217;Lanterns Irish?<br \/>\n Do they look better lit?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"3\"> Copyright October 30th 2013 RGD<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge, where Bettie&#8217;s theme is pumpkin carving and Halloween. \u00a0 JACK-O-LANTERN LORE \u00a0 Have you ever seen a pumpkin carved by a bumpkin? I have. It&#8217;s really sumpkin.&#8217; If you hire an intern to carve your Jack-o-lantern, you may become concerned if that intern hasn&#8217;t [&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-112530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112530","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=112530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}