{"id":64452,"date":"2011-09-22T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/64452\/friday-fling-celebrates-beginning-autumn\/"},"modified":"2011-09-22T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T01:00:34","slug":"friday-fling-celebrates-beginning-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/64452\/friday-fling-celebrates-beginning-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fling Celebrates The Beginning of Autumn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=FlingPoster92311.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/FlingPoster92311.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FlingPoster92311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Friday Fling #147 September  23rd 2011<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Friday, September 23rd is the first day of autumn!  What does that mean to you? <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Thought you would get away easy huh.  Well our challenge this week includes writing about the meaning of Fall in a format called the Nove Otto. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>A Nove Otto is a poem of nine lines of eight syllables each.  The rhyme scheme is aacbbcddc.  Here is an example by Vivienne of France:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Oops is a daft French magazine<br \/>\ndevoted to celebs\u2019 obscene<br \/>\nposturing and antic bloopers.<br \/>\nThough why we should be riveted<br \/>\nto rubbish like these syndicated<br \/>\nwords and photographs by snoopers<br \/>\ndefies good sense and has debased,<br \/>\nnay, desecrated all good taste,<br \/>\nturned me into party pooper. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" color=\"#999999\">http:\/\/vivinfrance.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/10\/nove-otto\/<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>This week the Friday Fling writes Nove Ottos about the meaning of the first day of Fall!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Be sure to save time to read and comment colorfully on your fellow Pals&#8217; autumnal antics.  Then go enjoy the first weekend of Fall!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>As always should the suggested format not be your favorite poetic season, you may post anything poetic by you on the topic.  The important thing is to Be Creative and have some Friggin&#8217; Fabulous Fall Fun! <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Fickle Finger of Fate Award for  September 16th<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Vic!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=5FAwardCert-3-84.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/5FAwardCert-3-84.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=autumn_season.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/autumn_season.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=leaves-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/leaves-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Fling #147 September 23rd 2011 Friday, September 23rd is the first day of autumn! What does that mean to you? Thought you would get away easy huh. Well our challenge this week includes writing about the meaning of Fall in a format called the Nove Otto. A Nove Otto is a poem of nine [&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-64452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64452","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=64452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}