{"id":2168,"date":"2010-07-30T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2010-07-27T17:41:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:41:49","slug":"weekly-prompt-writing-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/weekly-prompt-writing-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Prompt: Writing the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/family4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2177 alignnone\" title=\"family4\" src=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/family4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/family-picture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2173\" title=\"family picture\" src=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/family-picture-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/family-picture-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/family-picture.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been following the <em>Lantern Review Blog<\/em> for a while, you\u2019re already familiar with the <a href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/05\/weekly-prompt-ekphrastic-poems\/\">ekphrastic poem<\/a>, that is, a poem\u00a0written in response to a work of art.\u00a0 This prompt is a variation on the idea of ekphrasis and, like <a href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/weekly-prompt-playing-with-perspective\/\">this prompt <\/a>from two weeks ago, gives you an opportunity to play with perspective (except with higher stakes).<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pick a photograph<\/strong> of a meaningful occasion in your family\u2019s history. A wedding, for example, or a baby shower.\u00a0 Maybe even a funeral; just choose an image that tells a story and features more than one member of your family.\u00a0 Look carefully at the people in the photo and think about their personalities, voices, idiosyncrasies.\u00a0 What family folklore comes to mind when you look at each individual?\u00a0 Now think about who\u2019s <em>not <\/em>in the photo.\u00a0 Someone who passed away recently, or who has been deceased for decades. \u00a0Someone who missed the occasion because they had something else to attend to, or forgot to show up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now write from the point of view of the absent party.<\/strong> Proceed in whatever way feels most natural to the voice of the person whose absence you\u2019ve identified &#8212; this may mean you&#8217;re working mostly with direct address, description, narrative, or a combination of modes.\u00a0\u00a0You may find yourself experimenting with the voice of the dead, the voice of a divorced parent, or that of an uncle who cut himself off from the family. \u00a0The idea is to forge a new perspective from which to consider your family&#8217;s history, one that would otherwise go unaddressed by more normative modes of &#8220;telling&#8221; family lore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been following the Lantern Review Blog for a while, you\u2019re already familiar with the ekphrastic poem, that is, a poem\u00a0written in response to a work of art.\u00a0 This prompt is a variation on the idea of ekphrasis and, like this prompt from two weeks ago, gives you an opportunity to play with perspective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[240,367,1048,365,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}