{"id":309,"date":"2017-03-14T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=309"},"modified":"2017-03-14T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:00:43","slug":"poem-of-the-month-30-ways-to-celebrate-national-poetry-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: 30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read a poem.<\/p>\n<p>Contemplate a rock.<\/p>\n<p>Buy a book.<\/p>\n<p>Write a limerick.<\/p>\n<p>Sing in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Send someone a poem.<\/p>\n<p>Say \u201cyes\u201d to every proposition for one whole day.<\/p>\n<p>Say \u201cno\u201d to every proposition for one whole day.<\/p>\n<p>Talk to an animal.<\/p>\n<p>Dance.<\/p>\n<p>Read a poem to a child.<\/p>\n<p>Watch ants.<\/p>\n<p>Have an orgasm.<\/p>\n<p>Light candles.<\/p>\n<p>Stand outside, close your eyes, and listen for five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Take a poet to lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Get your hands dirty.<\/p>\n<p>Take a moonbath.<\/p>\n<p>Bake bread or make a pie.<\/p>\n<p>Lunge at something.<\/p>\n<p>Memorize a poem.<\/p>\n<p>Make a heartfelt toast.<\/p>\n<p>Copy this list and pass it along.<\/p>\n<p>Put a flower on your desk.<\/p>\n<p>Take a long walk alone.<\/p>\n<p>Read or recite a poem to a co-worker.<\/p>\n<p>Tell a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Get acquainted with the night.<\/p>\n<p>Sit in or against a tree and write a letter.<\/p>\n<p>Choose two things from this list and do them again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;30 Ways&#8221; is a re-posting from April 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-306\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read a poem. Contemplate a rock. Buy a book. Write a limerick. Sing in traffic. Send someone a poem. Say <a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=309\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-noellesickelswp","post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-allposts","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}