{"id":81461,"date":"2012-02-07T00:55:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T05:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/81461\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-creates-valentine-cards\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T00:55:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T05:55:11","slug":"cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-creates-valentine-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/81461\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-creates-valentine-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Creates Valentine Cards!"},"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 beginning when the challenge opens Thursday at 9 PM 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><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=valentine_card.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/valentine_card.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Friday Fling #167 February 10th 2012<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>The Big Love Day is approaching!  We though we&#8217;d give you a chance to save yourself some money by creating your own Valentine card!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>So this week&#8217;s challenge is to write a Valentine card verse for your favorite Valentine.  Since we&#8217;re into formats on the Friday Fling, and shape formats look nice on Valentine cards, we thought of the Lanturne. \u00a0ShadowPoetry.com explains this format:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>The Lanturne is a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one,\u00a0two, three, four, one.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\">Swift<br \/>\nWinds blow<br \/>\nthreatening,<br \/>\na tornado<br \/>\ngrows.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\" color=\"#999999\">Copyright \u00a9 2003 Crystal Rose<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><br \/>\n<strong> Easy huh?  This week the Friday Fling holds the Lanturne of love high for Valentine&#8217;s Day!<br \/>\nBe sure to save time to read and comment brightly on your fellow Pals&#8217; illuminations.  Then go off and enjoy your weekend!  But be sure not to forget to print out your Friday Fling-featured Valentine card!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Here are a few possible designs to use for your card.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=girl_valentine.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/girl_valentine.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=2008-07-30-1843-28.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/2008-07-30-1843-28.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=background_for_valentine_day_card.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/background_for_valentine_day_card.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=2008-07-30-1844-38.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/2008-07-30-1844-38.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=2008-07-30-1839-15.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/2008-07-30-1839-15.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/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 February 3rd<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Barbara!<\/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-3-104.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/5FAwardCert-3-104.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 beginning when the challenge opens Thursday at 9 PM EST. Friday Fling #167 February 10th 2012 The Big Love Day is approaching! We though we&#8217;d give you a chance to save yourself some money by creating your own [&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-81461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81461","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=81461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}