{"id":35501,"date":"2011-05-09T22:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/35501\/friday-fling-favors-flowers\/"},"modified":"2011-05-09T22:25:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:25:44","slug":"friday-fling-favors-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/35501\/friday-fling-favors-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fling Favors May Flowers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/FlingPoster51311.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"487\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/Spring-Flowers-in-red.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Friday Fling #128 May 13th 2011<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">It&#8217;s the middle of May, so we thought we should do a follow-up to Michelle&#8217;s pre CPC-Friendburst blog party challenge about April showers by writing about May flowers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">What do you look forward to and enjoy most about Spring in general and\/or May flowers in particular?\u00a0 How does Spring in full feather make you feel and\/or act?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/DSC00850.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Perhaps the format most associated with nature is the Japanese Haiku.\u00a0 The Haiku is also one of the easiest short poetry formats, consisting of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables.\u00a0 Thus:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">When Spring is springing,<br \/>\nand the weather is warmer,<br \/>\nflowers reach for the sun.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>C<\/strong>opyright May 9th 2011 RGD<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This week the Friday Fling Springs into a Sprung Spring with a Spring Fling Thing!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: #000000;font-size: small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/Spring-Flowers-34302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"385\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Be sure to save time to read and comment nurturingly, with a spring in your fingers.\u00a0 Then spring into this Mid-May Spring weekend! -Bob\/Scotorum and Michelle K.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">As ever, should the suggested topic or format not be to your muse&#8217;s taste, you may post any poem you have written lately which is appropriate for the\u00a0CPC Pal family.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: #000000;font-size: small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/spring_flowers_T1669-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: #000000;font-size: small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b7\/okafor1337\/Mad%20Magazine\/Mad28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"653\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Fickle Finger of Fate Award for May 6th 2011<\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Congratulations marthamagenta!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/5FAwardCert-3-65.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"408\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Fling #128 May 13th 2011 \u00a0 It&#8217;s the middle of May, so we thought we should do a follow-up to Michelle&#8217;s pre CPC-Friendburst blog party challenge about April showers by writing about May flowers. What do you look forward to and enjoy most about Spring in general and\/or May flowers in particular?\u00a0 How does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35501","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=35501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}