{"id":68209,"date":"2020-06-27T16:36:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68209"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:27:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:27:32","slug":"emo-no-no-hour-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/emo-no-no-hour-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Emo No No (Hour 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Emo No No<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tekkies have reduced emotions<br \/>\nto little cartoons<br \/>\nand renamed them emojis.<\/p>\n<p>Words erased and replaced<br \/>\nby clapping hands and smiley faces and upward thumbs.<\/p>\n<p>Tekkies don\u2019t have time for small talk.<br \/>\nCommunication is a challenge to be coded and corralled.<\/p>\n<p>Express sadness with a frown,<br \/>\njoy with a smile,<br \/>\namusement with a gaping grin.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps language will be swallowed by ASCII.<br \/>\nAll that boring drivel dissected and deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Essays erased.<br \/>\nPoetry plundered.<br \/>\nNovels neutralized.<\/p>\n<p>A wake-up call, my fellow writers:<br \/>\n<em>The emojis are coming. Take up your pens!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Put your feelings into prose or poetry.<br \/>\nRelish complete sentences and precise expression.<br \/>\nSimile, metaphor, allusion, alliteration.<br \/>\nsymbolism, personification.<\/p>\n<p>If language is fated for extinction, let the finale be recorded in words \u2014<br \/>\nglorious, eternal, inspiring, rousing, memorable, remarkable words!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emo No No The tekkies have reduced emotions to little cartoons and renamed them emojis. Words erased and replaced by clapping hands and smiley faces and upward thumbs. Tekkies don\u2019t have time for small talk. Communication is a challenge to be coded and corralled. Express&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68209","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69668,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68209\/revisions\/69668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}