{"id":194,"date":"2015-07-21T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=194"},"modified":"2024-09-26T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:34:27","slug":"riddle-almost-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Riddle [Almost new] (4 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>No good children&#8217;s story is complete without involving&nbsp;the reader to solve some problem for the protagonist. One vehicle to accomplish this is to include riddles which, through whatever contrivance, need to be answered for the protagonist to succeed. Here&#8217;s a riddle that I was planning to include in the story I mentioned a few days ago that would weave together several of my longer poems into something akin to <\/em>Alice in Wonderland<em>.&nbsp;Feel free to submit your&nbsp;answers as&nbsp;comments.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>That which is, and which reveals.<br>\nClosed to the world, though open to a few.<br>\nDrawn and shaded, but clearly there.<br>\nLook out!<\/p>\n\n\n<head>\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1\">\n<style>\n.dropbtn {\n  background-color: #aaaaaa;\n  color: white;\n  padding: 16px;\n  font-size: 16px;\n  border: none;\n}\n\n.dropdown {\n  position: relative;\n  display: inline-block;\n}\n\n.dropdown-content {\n  display: none;\n  position: absolute;\n  background-color: #f1f1f1;\n  min-width: 160px;\n  box-shadow: 0px 8px 16px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);\n  z-index: 1;\n}\n\n.dropdown-content a {\n  color: black;\n  padding: 12px 16px;\n  text-decoration: none;\n  display: block;\n}\n\n.dropdown-content a:hover {background-color: #ddd;}\n.dropdown:hover .dropdown-content {display: block;}\n.dropdown:hover .dropbtn {background-color: #3e8e41;}\n<\/style>\n<\/head>\n\n<body style=\"background-color:white;\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n  <button class=\"dropbtn\">ANSWER<\/button>\n  <div class=\"dropdown-content\">\n    <a href=\"#\">A window<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No good children&#8217;s story is complete without involving&nbsp;the reader to solve some problem for the protagonist. One vehicle to accomplish this is to include riddles which, through whatever contrivance, need to be answered for the protagonist to succeed. Here&#8217;s a riddle that I was planning to include in the story I mentioned a few days &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Riddle [Almost new] (4 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}