{"id":818,"date":"2018-05-31T12:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyfaughnan.com\/faughnan\/?p=818"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:36:47","slug":"poetry-challenge-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/31\/poetry-challenge-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Challenge #37"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Put Me In, Coach&#8230;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The \u201cKansas Comet,\u201d Gayle Sayers, considered \u201cone of the greatest players in NFL history,\u201d was born on May 30, 1943.<\/p>\n<p>(I don\u2019t recall ever actually seeing Gayle Sayers play. In my mind he\u2019s Billy D. Williams from the 1971 movie Brian\u2019s Song. If you haven\u2019t seen it, you should\u2014bring tissues.)<\/p>\n<p>Sayer, who played for the Chicago Bears, said, \u201cI had a style all my own. The way I ran, lurchy, herky-jerky, I kept people off-guard\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLurchy, herky-jerky\u201d works! Football fans take note: For the record, Sayer piled up \u201c4,956 yards rushing in his 68-game career and was voted to four Pro Bowls. Sayers scored 22 touchdowns and 132 points in his first season, both then-rookie records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Write a poem about football in your own \u201cLurchy, herky-jerky style.\u201d<br \/>\nOr . . .<br \/>\nWrite a poem to the \u201cCoach\u201d of your imagination asking to be \u201cPut in\u201d to something you really, really, really want.<\/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!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Don\u2019t think about it too much; just do it. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/kellybennett.com\/blog\/\">Kelly Bennett <\/a>and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 800 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem. Scroll down and click on the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put Me In, Coach&#8230; The \u201cKansas Comet,\u201d Gayle Sayers, considered \u201cone of the greatest players in NFL history,\u201d was born on May 30, 1943. (I don\u2019t recall ever actually seeing Gayle Sayers play. In my mind he\u2019s Billy D. Williams from the 1971 movie Brian\u2019s Song. If you haven\u2019t seen it, you should\u2014bring tissues.) Sayer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/31\/poetry-challenge-37\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry Challenge #37&#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\/818"}],"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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}