{"id":616,"date":"2009-06-01T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2009-06-01T00:24:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T04:24:09","slug":"huffpo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/06\/01\/huffpo-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo’s Oddball Poetry Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Linkins, over at Huffington Post, challenges us to write poetry using an odd combination of words<\/a>:<\/p>\n

FUN FACT: Our blog software has four alternate suggestions for the word “tchotchkes,” which it does not recognize. They are:<\/p>\n

LATCHKEYS.
\nHOPSCOTCHES.
\nCROTCHLESS.
\nHOTCAKES.<\/p>\n

I should very much like to see if anyone can write a bracing poem or epigram using these four words, in any context. Send your submissions to me, via email, with the subject line: “THE GREAT HUFFPO LATCHKEYS HOPSCOTCHES CROTCHLESS HOTCAKES LITERARY CONTEST IS AFOOT!” I will, in turn, nominate your offerings for prestigious literary awards, like the Man Booker Prize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I decided to have some fun with it, writing both a limerick and a more serious poem. First, my limerick:<\/p>\n

As a crotchless young woman from Spain
\nIs savoring hotcakes on Main,
\nWho hopscotches by?
\nA buck-naked guy,
\nTwirling latchkeys and looking insane.<\/p>\n

And now something more serious, using the same quartet of words:<\/p>\n

Disconsolate youth,
\nLacking latchkeys and adult supervision,
\nRun around crotchless, uncouth,
\nSubsisting on hotcakes,
\nWhile their absent father
\nHopscotches through life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Linkins, over at Huffington Post, challenges us to write poetry using an odd combination of words: FUN FACT: Our blog software has four alternate suggestions for the word “tchotchkes,” which it does not recognize. They are: LATCHKEYS. HOPSCOTCHES. CROTCHLESS. HOTCAKES. I should very much like to see if anyone can write a bracing poem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,107,65,42,103],"tags":[358,359,4950,203],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-free-verse","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","tag-huffington-post","tag-jason-linkins","tag-poetry-contest","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}