{"id":79036,"date":"2012-01-17T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/79036\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-nice-ice\/"},"modified":"2012-01-17T01:40:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T06:40:27","slug":"cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-nice-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/79036\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-nice-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Makes Nice With Ice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#ff0000\"><strong><em>This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. \u00a0Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 P.M. EST.<\/em><\/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=CPCBanner.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/CPCBanner.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Banner\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=icicles-1-1-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/icicles-1-1-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#999999\"><strong><font size=\"6\">Friday Fling #164 January 20th 2012<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#999999\"><strong><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">Dunno about you, but for us up here in the frozen northlands, where it&#8217;s closing in on midwinter, the common liquid known as water has become the common solid known as &#8211; ICE!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">It&#8217;s a fun change for those who enjoy such things as<\/font><font color=\"#993366\"> ice skating, ice hockey, ice fishing, ice cream, icicles<\/font><font color=\"#999999\">.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">In the world of poetry ice itself is a nice compact little word.  But <\/font><font color=\"#993366\">in the format known as the Acrostic, where the beginning of each line is a word starting with a letter in a word you can read down the left side of the poem<\/font><font color=\"#999999\">, ice can be a treasure or a curse.  It starts with I, so it suffICEs to start a line where you need an I in the Acrostic word.  But it also has two vowels, I and E, and a not so Commonly used letter C (you get 3 or 4 points for using one in Scrabble)<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">So yeah this is to get you fired up to <\/font><font color=\"#993366\">write an Acrostic about ice, where you use the word ice somewhere in the poem!<\/font><font color=\"#999999\"> Like<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>I magine<br \/>\nC old winter sports!<br \/>\nE xciting!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>or<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>C ompeting<br \/>\nO utside in winter.<br \/>\nL ove those ice sports!<br \/>\nD aytime delights!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#993366\"><strong>This week the Friday Fling has winter Acrostical fun with ice!<\/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 on your fellow Pals crystal Acrostic creations.  Then go do something N-ice this weekend!<\/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\u00a0 January 13th<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Rebel!<\/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-3-101.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/5FAwardCert-3-101.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=MissionInnChristmas083.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/MissionInnChristmas083.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=Icefishing004.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/Icefishing004.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=icicles-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/icicles-1.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=P1010141.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/P1010141.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=bluebonnet8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/bluebonnet8.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=IceSculpture-Carassel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/IceSculpture-Carassel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. \u00a0Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 P.M. 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Friday Fling #164 January 20th 2012 Dunno about you, but for us up here in the frozen northlands, where it&#8217;s closing in on midwinter, the common liquid known [&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-79036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79036","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=79036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}