{"id":36124,"date":"2011-05-12T20:39:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/36124\/friday-fling-celebrates-spring-flowers\/"},"modified":"2011-05-12T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:39:29","slug":"friday-fling-celebrates-spring-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/36124\/friday-fling-celebrates-spring-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fling Celebrates Spring Flowers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=FlingPoster51311.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/FlingPoster51311.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FlingPoster51311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=Spring-Flowers-in-red.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/Spring-Flowers-in-red.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Friday Fling #128 May 13th 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>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. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>What do you look forward to and enjoy most about Spring in general and\/or May flowers in particular? How does Spring in full feather make you feel and\/or act? <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/?action=view&amp;current=DSC00850.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/DSC00850.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Perhaps the format most associated with nature is the Japanese Haiku. The Haiku is also one of the easiest short poetry formats, consisting of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables. Thus:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When Spring is springing,<br \/>\nand the weather is warmer,<br \/>\nflowers reach for the sun.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Copyright May 9th 2011 RGD<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>This week the Friday Fling Springs into a Sprung Spring with a Spring Fling Thing!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/?action=view&amp;current=Spring-Flowers-34302.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/Spring-Flowers-34302.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Be sure to save time to read and comment nurturingly, with a spring in your fingers. Then spring into this Mid-May Spring weekend! <em>-Bob\/Scotorum and Michelle K.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>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. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=spring_flowers_T1669-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/spring_flowers_T1669-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\/images\/mad%20magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b7\/okafor1337\/Mad%20Magazine\/Mad28.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mad 28 Pictures, Images and Photos\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Fickle Finger of Fate Award for May 6th 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Congratulations marthamagenta!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=5FAwardCert-3-65.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/5FAwardCert-3-65.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Fling #128 May 13th 2011 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? How does Spring [&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-36124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36124","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=36124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}