{"id":24346,"date":"2024-04-02T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T18:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=24346"},"modified":"2024-04-02T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T18:38:33","slug":"day-2-napowrimo-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=24346","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 NaPoWriMo 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While waiting for Mom doing her PT, I pondered today&#8217;s prompt: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;write a platonic love poem. In other words, a poem not about a romantic partner, but some other kind of love \u2013 your love for your sister, or a friend, or even your love for a really good Chicago deep dish pizza. The poem should be written directly to the object of your affections (like a letter is written to \u201cyou\u201d), and should describe at least three memories of you engaging with that person\/thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And as I slurped the last of my coffee, it came to me in a flash!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This familiar paper cup<br \/>\nThis brown cardboard sleeve<br \/>\nthis carefully molded white lid \u2014<br \/>\nHow I look forward to our meetings!<br \/>\nI know the level of half and half<br \/>\nI know how much sweetener<br \/>\nI know how to pour the fragrant liquid<br \/>\nquickly and neatly<br \/>\nI have exact change ready<br \/>\nWe fling open the door<br \/>\nto face the day!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And a couple haiku:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A card from a friend<br \/>\npen to paper, add a stamp<br \/>\nreading in the yard<\/p>\n<p>Three postcards today<br \/>\nhappiness in the mailbox<br \/>\nunexpectedly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2997.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2997.jpg\" title=\"White take out coffee cup with brown sleeve and white lid sits in car cupholder with assorted car flotsam: altoids tin and measuring tape.\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2997.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2997-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2997-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This familiar paper cup \u2022 This brown cardboard sleeve&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=24346\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24347,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[169,768,13,86,799,63,65,147,51],"tags":[445,202,88,539,541,411,105,920,192],"class_list":["post-24346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coffee-and-tea","category-deadline","category-do-the-work","category-family-and-friends","category-gratitude","category-haiku","category-napowrimo","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-the-creative-process","tag-coffee","tag-dothework","tag-friends","tag-haiku","tag-napowrimo","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-postcard","tag-process"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@mbfrezon\/112203079607858396","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2997.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-6kG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346","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=24346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24348,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346\/revisions\/24348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}