{"id":96207,"date":"2012-09-12T23:27:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T03:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/96207\/poem-thirteen-stories-involving-number-thirteen-ten-stories\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T03:27:43","slug":"poem-thirteen-stories-involving-number-thirteen-ten-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/96207\/poem-thirteen-stories-involving-number-thirteen-ten-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Thirteen Stories Involving the Number Thirteen; Minus Ten Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was produced for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/94537\/thematic-attic-number-13\/\">CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge.<\/a> The theme is the number thirteen.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\"><strong>THIRTEEN STORIES INVOLVING THE NUMBER THIRTEEN.<br \/>\nMINUS TEN STORIES.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Captions%20Creative%20Images\/?action=view&amp;current=monkeys.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Captions%20Creative%20Images\/monkeys.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Thirteen monkeys jumpin on the bed.<br \/>\nOne fell off and bumped his head.<br \/>\nThe other monkeys wised up,<br \/>\nwent out to Sports Authority at the mall<br \/>\nand bought bike helmets.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Humor\/?action=view&amp;current=Beer-Bottle.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Humor\/Beer-Bottle.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Thirteen bottles of beer on the wall,<br \/>\nthirteen bottles of beer.<br \/>\nI took one down and drank it all.<br \/>\nNow there&#8217;s only twelve.<br \/>\nNothing to fear.<br \/>\nIt helps that I&#8217;m a little high now, too.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Captions%20Creative%20Images\/?action=view&amp;current=spartans.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Captions%20Creative%20Images\/spartans.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Thirteen Spartans defending the pass<br \/>\nagainst thirteen thousand Persians.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d think the Spartans would be screwed, right?<br \/>\nBut the Israelis had their back<br \/>\nand nuked the crap outta the Persians.<br \/>\nI know what you&#8217;re thinking.<br \/>\nThe Spartans lived way before the founding of Israel in 1948.<br \/>\nWay before.<br \/>\nTrue.<br \/>\nBut who&#8217;s to say the Israelis didn&#8217;t have a time machine?<br \/>\nNot me.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\">Copyright September 12th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was produced for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. The theme is the number thirteen. THIRTEEN STORIES INVOLVING THE NUMBER THIRTEEN. MINUS TEN STORIES. Thirteen monkeys jumpin on the bed. One fell off and bumped his head. The other monkeys wised up, went out to Sports Authority at the mall and bought bike [&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-96207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96207","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=96207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}