{"id":120,"date":"2011-05-10T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2013-12-26T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T21:50:56","slug":"haikus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/haikus\/","title":{"rendered":"Haikus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing the swarm of pixel people invading Twitter, I found the source and tried out <a href=\"http:\/\/eightbit.me\">Eightbit<\/a>. I decided since it already checked into Foursquare I would play a game with it and would write a haiku to go with each check-in. I had a lot of fun with it for a while and have since removed the Eightbit web link since I don&#8217;t see any point in continuing to use it. It did offer some amusement trying to compose a haiku for each place I went. Here are a sampling of the ones I wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Large man seeks work pants<br \/>\nCasual man reserved<br \/>\nWinning comes on sale<\/p>\n<p>Watching Annie Shop<br \/>\nShoes to the horizon line<br \/>\nWill they have The Pair?<\/p>\n<p>Piles of laptops<br \/>\nMessily adorn my desk<br \/>\nAgree to the terms<\/p>\n<p>Sitting on a bench<br \/>\nWaiting for the big blue bus<br \/>\nWill it beat the rain?<\/p>\n<p>A pharmacy run<br \/>\nAnother long wait for pills<br \/>\nNo babies for us<\/p>\n<p>Tiny droplets dance<br \/>\nCareening beneath my feet<br \/>\nFoot fatality<\/p>\n<p>iPad Not Top News<br \/>\nEarthquake Tsunami Japan<br \/>\nThoughts and Cash Eastward<\/p>\n<p>Mountains of sweet cake<br \/>\nEnormous menu chock full<br \/>\nWorth the wait to dine<\/p>\n<p>Secret travel line<br \/>\nSpeeding silently beneath<br \/>\nMasses overhead<\/p>\n<p>Waited for a bus<br \/>\nStranded when it deserted<br \/>\nAll daily riders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing the swarm of pixel people invading Twitter, I found the source and tried out Eightbit. I decided since it already checked into Foursquare I would play a game with it and would write a haiku to go with each check-in. I had a lot of fun with it for a while and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,111,134],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-eightbit","tag-games","tag-haiku"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}