{"id":5057,"date":"2012-01-20T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2012-01-14T16:48:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T21:48:44","slug":"friday-prompt-the-child-thought-it-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/friday-prompt-the-child-thought-it-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Prompt: &#8220;The child thought it strange . . .&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5060\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_2265-pola.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5060  \" title=\"January. The living room window.\" src=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_2265-pola-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"January. The living room window.\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_2265-pola-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_2265-pola-842x1024.jpg 842w, https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_2265-pola.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">January. The living room window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We start 2012 with a prompt that was suggested to us by one of our former staff writers, <a title=\"Supriya's Posts for LR\" href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/author\/supriya\/\" target=\"_blank\">Supriya Misra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After reading Richard Meier&#8217;s poem &#8220;[Untitled] The child thought it strange&#8221; in <a title=\"Poets.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\" target=\"_blank\">Poets.org<\/a>&#8216;s Poem-a-Day newsletter, Surpriya was so struck by the opening line that she emailed us to share it. &#8220;I think the first line of this poem would make an amazing poetry prompt!&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t agree more. Hence, today&#8217;s Friday Prompt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prompt: Write a poem that begins with some part or variation of the line: &#8220;The child thought it strange to define words with other words.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>To read the rest of Richard Meier&#8217;s poem,\u00a0<a title=\"Untitled [The child thought it strange]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/22702\" target=\"_blank\"> click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start 2012 with a prompt that was suggested to us by one of our former staff writers, Supriya Misra. After reading Richard Meier&#8217;s poem &#8220;[Untitled] The child thought it strange&#8221; in Poets.org&#8216;s Poem-a-Day newsletter, Surpriya was so struck by the opening line that she emailed us to share it. &#8220;I think the first line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[629,796,795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}