{"id":717,"date":"2017-11-17T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyfaughnan.com\/faughnan\/?p=717"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:37:08","slug":"poetry-challenge-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/17\/poetry-challenge-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Challenge #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Santa Baby . . .<\/strong><br \/>\nWrite a letter to Santa. If you\u2019ve been \u201cnice\u201d tell Santa why you deserve to be treated especially nice this holiday season. If you\u2019ve been \u201cnaughty\u201d\u2026 well, you\u2019ve got some explaining to do.<br \/>\nFor extra credit, try writing your letter to Santa in rhyme or song lyrics.<br \/>\nFor inspiration, listen to the 1953 recording of Eartha Kit singing \u201cSanta Baby,\u201d written by Joan Javits &amp; Philip Springer:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Set the timer for 7 minutes.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Start writing!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Don\u2019t think about it too much; just do it. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>And, if you do join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge be sure to let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole dang poem, in the comments!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Santa Baby . . . Write a letter to Santa. If you\u2019ve been \u201cnice\u201d tell Santa why you deserve to be treated especially nice this holiday season. If you\u2019ve been \u201cnaughty\u201d\u2026 well, you\u2019ve got some explaining to do. For extra credit, try writing your letter to Santa in rhyme or song lyrics. For inspiration, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/17\/poetry-challenge-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry Challenge #9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}