{"id":85248,"date":"2012-03-27T01:07:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T05:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/85248\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-plays-poetic-fool\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T01:07:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T05:07:40","slug":"cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-plays-poetic-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/85248\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-friday-fling-plays-poetic-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Plays The Poetic Fool!"},"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 beginning Thursday March 29th at 9 PM EDT.<\/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=untitled-1-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/untitled-1-1.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 #174 March 30th 2012<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">Next Monday is <\/font><font color=\"#800080\">April Fool&#8217;s Day.  What does that mean to you?  Have you ever been April fooled or April fooled someone?<\/font><font color=\"#999999\"> How about writing a poem about it!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#800080\"><strong>No recommended format this week &#8211; wing it your own way!   Better yet, April Fool your reader somehow!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Here&#8217;s a short I did as an example for this intro:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\">I was an April fool,<br \/>\nan April foolish, churlish tool.<br \/>\nWhen I put my feet upon the stool,<br \/>\nit was a stool left by a mule!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\" color=\"#999999\">Copyright March 26th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#800080\"><strong>This Week the Friday Fling plays the April Fool in poetry!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Be sure to read and comment un-foolishly on your fellow Pals&#8217; April foolery.  Then go do something April foolish and\/or April funnish 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 March 23rd<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Angel Love!<\/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-3-111.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/5FAwardCert-3-111.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=April-Fool-ILLUS1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/April-Fool-ILLUS1.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=08.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/08.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=50.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/50.gif\" 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=april-fool.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/april-fool.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=22.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/22.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 beginning Thursday March 29th at 9 PM EDT. Friday Fling #174 March 30th 2012 Next Monday is April Fool&#8217;s Day. What does that mean to you? Have you ever been April fooled or April [&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-85248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85248","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=85248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}