{"id":117,"date":"2008-03-10T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/117\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T02:43:04","slug":"117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/117\/","title":{"rendered":"Roughies Poetry Contest, v. 2.0 (or is that Roughies Poetry Contest ME ?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may recall when I did this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Announcing today, the First Annual HiR:tb Saskatchewan Roughriders Poetry Contest<\/font>.<\/font><\/strong> Entries may assume any lyrical or poetic form; your creativity should know no bounds in this matter. Send us your haikus<\/a>, your limericks<\/a>, your sonnets<\/a> and couplets<\/a>; gather together your spondees<\/a>, trochees <\/a>and whatever pentameter you can scrape together, be it iambic <\/a>or otherwise, and bend all of these elements to your noble purpose: the celebration of anything related to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Difficulty: No rhyming the word \u201cRegina\u201d. I\u2019m trying to keep this place relatively clean-like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The total number of submissions received so far, according to the crack combined Accounting, Correspondence and Bottle Return Department (3rd floor, past the washroom, in the back behind the photocopier) is, to say the least, rather underwhelming: zero.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, I have decided to extend the deadline for the competition; originally, there was a cut-off date of March 10th, 2008. That deadline has been extended to March 31st, 2008. Submissions should be sent here<\/a>. In the meantime, I thought I’d offer you up a l’il sumpin’ sumpin’ to get the creative juices flowing. I have crafted a limerick.<\/p>\n

Ahem. “A po-em”:<\/p>\n

There was a young ‘Rider it seems
\nWho’d satisfied championship dreams
\nBut his grace on the field
\nTo profits must yield,
\nTo the Argos you’re off now, switch teams!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Readers are responsible for dealing with their own tears, be they of joy, sadness or shame.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: (March 11, 2008): \u00a0 I am sworn to secrecy, but verily my limerick has prompted a veritable outporing of creativity.\u00a0 Okay, maybe not so much an “outporing”, but we do have a submission.\u00a0 So don’t be shy – you won’t be the first any longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may recall when I did this:<\/p>\n

Announcing today, the First Annual HiR:tb Saskatchewan Roughriders Poetry Contest. Entries may assume any lyrical or poetic form; your creativity should know no bounds in this matter. Send us your haikus, your limericks, your sonnets and couplets; gather together your spondees, trochees and whatever pentameter you can scrape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[116,115,1173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}