{"id":15738,"date":"2017-04-09T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T15:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=15738"},"modified":"2017-04-09T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T15:41:34","slug":"napowrimo-day-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=15738","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo, Day Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\/day-nine-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">NaPoWriMo<\/a>, today&#8217;s prompt:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because today is the ninth day of NaPoWriMo, I\u2019d like to challenge you to write a nine-line poem. Although the fourteen-line sonnet is often considered the \u201cbaseline\u201d form of verse in English, Sir Edmund Spenser wrote The Faerie Queene using a nine-line form of his own devising, and poetry in other languages (French, most particularly) has always taken advantage of nine-line forms. You can find information of various ways of organizing rhyme schemes, meters, etcetera for nine-line works <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetsgarret.com\/9line.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And of course, you can always eschew such conventions entirely, and opt to be a free-verse nine-line poet&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think it came out rather short-sonnet-like, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Burying the Cat<\/p>\n<p>Dark and many-browned, he was, as<br \/>\nthe earth I gave him back to,<br \/>\nthe soil warm, the leaves dry<br \/>\ndespite recent rains.<br \/>\nThis fragile, still thing,<br \/>\nnothing to speak or cry over,<br \/>\nleft only to transform, to be<br \/>\nsomething else, more again.<br \/>\nTears later, for the missing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because today is the ninth day of NaPoWriMo, I\u2019d like to challenge you to write a nine-line poem. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=15738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9,144,65,51],"tags":[268,541,192],"class_list":["post-15738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats-helpful-cats","category-life-around-us","category-napowrimo","category-the-creative-process","tag-cats","tag-napowrimo","tag-process"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-45Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15739,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738\/revisions\/15739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}