{"id":2961,"date":"2010-09-12T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2010\/09\/12\/"},"modified":"2010-09-12T10:15:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T14:15:05","slug":"one-sonnet-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"One Sonnet Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to say that we had a lot of participation in our &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2010\/08\/04\/a-contest-of-shakespearean-proportions\/\"target=\"_blank\">Contest of Shakespearean Proportions<\/a>&#8220;!  Thanks to all of you, one Buffet reader will be receiving a free copy of the book &#8220;To Be and How to Be&#8221; by Peggy Rubin thanks to our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questbooks.net\/\"target=\"_blank\">Quest Books<\/a>!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2968\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/big-book.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/big-book-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/big-book-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/big-book.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Prize Thanks to Quest Books!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Without further ado, let&#8217;s congratulate our winner!<\/p>\n<p>There once was a man from Nantucket<br \/>\n<em>Dear, this is a sonnet, not a limerick!<\/em><br \/>\nBut I really wished to utilize \u201csuck it\u201d\u2026<br \/>\n<em>Inappropriate, darling, don\u2019t be a dick.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A dick? A dick?? A dick, you say?<br \/>\n<em>Quiet now, Grandma is resting her eyes<\/em><br \/>\nI can\u2019t believe my Gram would ever speak this way!<br \/>\n<em>Well, dear, grannies can be vulgar too\u2013surprise!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alas, my heart has been torn asunder<br \/>\nMy grandma, pure of thought, is no more<br \/>\nHer shining image of moral wonder<br \/>\nHath been trampled, by reality, to the floor<\/p>\n<p><em>Hush now, youngling, \u2018tis all a part of growing up<br \/>\nThings are still as they seem, just a bit more f*cked up!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, Erica R&#8217;s f bomb dropping sonnet about growing up is the winner!  Congrats Erica!  A hearty round of applause everyone for both Erica and Greg for sharing such fantastic sonnets!  Those two guys really classed up this joint!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right folks, we have a winner!  Click on in to join in congratulating our winner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}