{"id":3523,"date":"2015-08-05T07:44:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2015-08-05T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:44:11","slug":"the-sadness-of-ice-cream-prompt-175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/the-sadness-of-ice-cream-prompt-175\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sadness of Ice Cream . . . . Prompt #175"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s writing prompt is a poem. You can write on the theme or mood of the poem, or a line, or a word. Write whatever comes up for you.<\/p>\n

The Sadness of Ice Cream by Ron Salisbury<\/p>\n

The emperor had his and\u00a0 I’ve had mine,\u00a0 home churned<\/p>\n

on the fourth of July, spoon after spoon after she called,<\/p>\n

gelato in Ravenna, Neapolitan–chocolate was the best–<\/p>\n

pints, bars,\u00a0 Liz\u00a0 Topps\u00a0 said next summer let’s eat lots,<\/p>\n

plopped\u00a0 a\u00a0 spoonful\u00a0 of\u00a0 Rocky\u00a0 Road\u00a0 on her bare belly.<\/p>\n

No more, my doctor says.\u00a0\u00a0 Cholesterol, blood pressure.<\/p>\n

Besides, right at the beginning, first cone, bite, spoonful<\/p>\n

licked off the belly,\u00a0 we\u00a0 begin\u00a0 to measure how much is<\/p>\n

left not how much there was. The sadness of ice cream.<\/p>\n

\"Miss<\/a>Ron Salisbury<\/a> is a writer who has integrated his poetry with his business life for decades.<\/p>\n

Now, three wives deep, four children long, and assorted careers past, he continues to study, publish and write in San Diego.\u00a0 His new book, Miss Desert Inn<\/em><\/a>. is being published this fall by Main Street Press, Charlotte, NC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s writing prompt is a poem. You can write on the theme or mood of the poem, or a line, or a word. Write whatever comes up for you. The Sadness of Ice Cream by Ron Salisbury The emperor had his and\u00a0 I’ve had mine,\u00a0 home churned on the fourth of July, spoon after spoon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[742,743],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-miss-desert-inn","tag-ron-salisbury"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-UP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}