{"id":1114,"date":"2011-04-22T23:07:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T04:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2011-04-22T23:07:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T04:07:36","slug":"cento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/cento\/","title":{"rendered":"Cento"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was minding my own business, scattering my mind through clicks through the internet when I found a cento-writing contest<\/a>. Based on the context of what I was looking at<\/a>, I knew it would be a poem. Because I’m trying not to forget that once I wrote every single day, I decided to consider the challenge, thinking that a cento was some form poem like a cinquain or a sestina. Turns out that it is a poem that is composed entirely out of other lines of poetry. So I gave it a shot. Check out my poem here<\/a>. Maybe you’ll write one too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was minding my own business, scattering my mind through clicks through the internet when I found a cento-writing contest. Based on the context of what I was looking at, I knew it would be a poem. Because I’m trying not to forget that once I wrote every single day, I decided to consider the… Continue reading Cento<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s33KTw-cento","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4459,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-decision-point\/","url_meta":{"origin":1114,"position":0},"title":"The Decision Point","author":"admin","date":"March 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"As I\u2019ve gotten closer, and closer to the present, it has become more of a challenge to figure out how to approach these cupcakes. 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