{"id":102928,"date":"2021-06-27T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102928"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:48:17","slug":"victorious-hour-24-an-acrostic-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/victorious-hour-24-an-acrostic-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorious! (Hour 24, An Acrostic Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103103\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/champs-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/champs-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/champs-1024x582.png 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/champs-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/champs.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>W<\/strong><\/span>riting our way to victory, we left<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>E<\/strong><\/span>verything behind, each piece of our sordid stories splattered<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">A<\/span><\/strong>ll across the page.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>R<\/strong><\/span>eaders, ride along with us!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">E<\/span><\/strong>veryone is invited<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>T<\/strong><\/span>o share in the<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>H<\/strong><\/span>appiness and heck,<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">E<\/span><\/strong>ven the heartaches, should you<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>C<\/strong><\/span>hoose to cheer us on.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">H<\/span><\/strong>ey, y&#8217;all, we<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span>ctually did it &#8212; we<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>M<\/strong><\/span>ade it through all 24 hours of<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>P<\/strong><\/span>oetry Marathon 2021!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/span> think this calls for a celebration!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>O<\/strong><\/span>h, wait&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>N<\/strong><\/span>o, on second thought, I believe I&#8217;ll just<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span>ettle for a lengthy victory NAP!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(An acrostic poem is one where the first letter of every line, when reading downward, spells out a word, a message,\u00a0 or even the entire alphabet. I have highlighted the &#8220;hidden&#8221; message in blue so it is more evident.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing our way to victory, we left Everything behind, each piece of our sordid stories splattered All across the page. Readers, ride along with us! Everyone is invited To share in the Happiness and heck, Even the heartaches, should you Choose to cheer us on&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103105,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102928\/revisions\/103105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}