{"id":115010,"date":"2022-06-25T20:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115010"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:17:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:17:47","slug":"hour-11-writing-prompt-write-a-poem-about-laughter-without-using-the-word-laugh-laughter-or-giggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-11-writing-prompt-write-a-poem-about-laughter-without-using-the-word-laugh-laughter-or-giggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11 Writing Prompt &#8211; Write a poem about laughter without using the word laugh, laughter or giggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Funny Bone Speaketh<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Staring at us with confusion, the baby, eyes wide an attentive,<\/p>\n<p>takes in the sight of parents acting the fool, over and over and over<\/p>\n<p>til the baby can no longer contain the pure belly full of joy and out it comes.<\/p>\n<p>The first &#8220;tee hee,&#8221; in the beginning is restrained, but as the merriment builds, the child<\/p>\n<p>who only just recently felt the same emotion upon it&#8217;s first\u00a0 &#8220;passing of the gas,&#8221; episode,<\/p>\n<p>can no longer hold back, what is about to be one of the greatest gifts that<\/p>\n<p>parents and grandparents alike could ever ask for&#8230;.a full blown, burst of air coming<\/p>\n<p>across the vocal chords and out into the world as baby&#8217;s first chuckle!<\/p>\n<p>From this point and until the child reaches puberty, parents everywhere will do<\/p>\n<p>anything and everything, and I do mean everything, to get said child to commit<\/p>\n<p>again to that top of the charts expulsion of glee.\u00a0 Much to the parents dismay, they<\/p>\n<p>are unlikely to see this occurrence until they catch them doing something they aren&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>supposed to and they try to recreate those precious moments to get themselves off the<\/p>\n<p>hook.\u00a0 Parents will get the last, you know, chuckle, though at their high school graduation<\/p>\n<p>party or when meeting &#8220;the one&#8221; and they pull out all of those extremely embarrassing<\/p>\n<p>baby photos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My advice, if you arejonesing to hear that wonderful sound again, take them to a comedy show.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are you won&#8217;t get the jokes, but your kids will be in stitches!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Funny Bone Speaketh &nbsp; Staring at us with confusion, the baby, eyes wide an attentive, takes in the sight of parents acting the fool, over and over and over til the baby can no longer contain the pure belly full of joy and out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115010","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\/1220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115989,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115010\/revisions\/115989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}