{"id":95330,"date":"2012-08-28T23:19:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/95330\/poems-step-step-plucky-ducky\/"},"modified":"2012-08-28T23:19:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:19:32","slug":"poems-step-step-plucky-ducky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/95330\/poems-step-step-plucky-ducky\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS: Step By Step and Plucky Ducky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>My Friendburst blog #300! \u00a0Congrats to me! <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: large\">These were created for the CPC Magic Monday and Pick-Apart Poetry challenges respectively. \u00a0The Monday theme was &#8220;The Magic Of a Step.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong>STEP BY STEP<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Step right up and try your luck,<br \/>\ntaking one step at a time.<br \/>\nSteppenwolf stepped lively.<br \/>\nRussian Steppes far from sublime.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Step increase raises your pay.<br \/>\nLead, follow,or step aside.<br \/>\nStep away from the vehicle;<br \/>\nStep in it and hurt your pride.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>One step forward, two steps back<br \/>\nno formula for success.<br \/>\nOne letter shy of a strep throat;<br \/>\nsometimes more is really less.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\">Copyright August 28th 2012<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>PLUCKY DUCKY<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Whatever task you tackle,<br \/>\ninside, in the soul of you,<br \/>\ndo you dread the toil,<br \/>\nor stand up to fear fully,<br \/>\nand pluck it?<br \/>\nYou must do that,<br \/>\nor you are plucked.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\">Words plucked from the poem &#8220;How Do You Tackle Your Work&#8221; by Edgar Guest<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><object><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Friendburst blog #300! \u00a0Congrats to me! These were created for the CPC Magic Monday and Pick-Apart Poetry challenges respectively. \u00a0The Monday theme was &#8220;The Magic Of a Step.&#8221; STEP BY STEP Step right up and try your luck, taking one step at a time. Steppenwolf stepped lively. Russian Steppes far from sublime. Step increase [&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-95330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95330","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=95330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}