{"id":114021,"date":"2014-01-02T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114021\/the-friday-fling-reprises-pet-limericks\/"},"modified":"2014-01-02T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T02:00:00","slug":"the-friday-fling-reprises-pet-limericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114021\/the-friday-fling-reprises-pet-limericks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fling Reprises Pet Limericks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our first Friday Fling of 2014, we’re reprising another first, our first Friday Fling challenge on Friendburst, from May 6, 2011. What really prompted this was our friend and former Fling co-host Michelle King posted pics of her new pet, a dachshund she named Holly. Anyway, here it is, formerly Friday Fling #127, which registered 14 hearts, 311 comments and 1,863 views! \u00a0The poster had been created by none other than the CPC founder, Lady “Cheryl” Death.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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We thought it would be a good time to celebrate friendship<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

by <\/font>writing about our animal friends, our pets or the pets of people we know.<\/font><\/font><\/span>
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\n <\/span>On the Fling we also like to challenge you further<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

by suggesting a format to write your poem(s) in.<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

How about <\/font>the Limerick, a five line poem of about 9-9-6-6-9 syllables<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

in which the nine syllable lines all rhyme and the six syllable lines rhyme.<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong> <\/strong>An additional pair of rules is that usually the first line introduces the subject,<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

which is usually a person or animal,<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

and the last line is a sort of punchline, often humorous.<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For example, <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>Michelle wrote this one for the CPC Simple Simple challenge at the beginning of the week:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong>So long ago two horses from Maine,
\n were quenching their thirst and fed on grain.
\n They were best friends of joy
\n and also of LeRoy
\n Forever in their hearts they remain.
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\n This week the Friday Fling writes pet limericks!<\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong> <\/strong> <\/strong> <\/strong>Be sure to save time to read and comment fondly <\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

on your fellow Pals’ pet projects.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then go off and enjoy the weekend.<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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<\/strong> <\/strong> <\/strong> <\/strong> <\/strong>As always, should the topic and\/or format not be your catnip,<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

you can post anything you’ve written lately<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

which fits within the broad boundaries of the CPC family’s standards of appropriateness!<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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For our first Friday Fling of 2014, we’re reprising another first, our first Friday Fling challenge on Friendburst, from May 6, 2011. What really prompted this was our friend and former Fling co-host Michelle King posted pics of her new pet, a dachshund she named Holly. Anyway, here it is, formerly Friday Fling #127, which […]<\/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-114021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114021","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=114021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}