{"id":97402,"date":"2012-10-04T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97402\/friday-fling-celebrates-200th-poetry-challenge\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:00:34","slug":"friday-fling-celebrates-200th-poetry-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97402\/friday-fling-celebrates-200th-poetry-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fling Celebrates Its 200th Poetry Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<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=FlingPoster100512.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/FlingPoster100512.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FlingPoster100512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Friday Fling #200 October 5th 2012<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Hard to believe but yes our best calculation suggests this is Fling #200!   Gotta celebrate that!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>It all began four years ago at the end of October 2008 when the CPC was running under a different name over on MySpace.  The Fling was conceived as a challenge to write in different formats expressing thoughts and feelings about timely developments.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">So in commemoration of the original, our theme this week will be just that: <\/font><font color=\"#800080\">your thoughts and\/or feelings about some timely development, either in your own life or in the world at large.  And we&#8217;re challenging you to express yourself in a format of your choice from this list on ShadowPoetry.com.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowpoetry.com\/resources\/wip\/types.html\">http:\/\/www.shadowpoetry.com\/resources\/wip\/types.html<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#800080\"><strong>This week the Friday Fling celebrates the end of its quadricentennial of years and bicentennial of Fling challenges by writing about something of current personal importance in a format of the poet&#8217;s choice!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Be sure to save time to read and comment in a timely manner on your Fellow Pals&#8217; formatted introspections.  Then go pursue your deepest interests 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 September 28th<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Diane!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong><\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=92812Diane.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/92812Diane.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"92812 Diane\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Fling #200 October 5th 2012 Hard to believe but yes our best calculation suggests this is Fling #200! Gotta celebrate that! It all began four years ago at the end of October 2008 when the CPC was running under a different name over on MySpace. The Fling was conceived as a challenge to write [&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-97402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97402","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=97402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}