{"id":4373,"date":"2018-03-16T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T15:34:00","slug":"altered-words-beautiful-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/altered-words-beautiful-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Words: Beautiful Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys! It&#8217;s time for another Altered Words post!<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>ABOUT ALTERED WORDS<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>In case you are new to these posts, <strong>Altered Words<\/strong> is my take on &#8220;found fiction&#8221; or blackout poetry, where I take a story, poem, or other literary work and try to &#8220;find&#8221; a poem within by simply crossing out the words I do not want to include in my piece<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>WHAT I FOUND!<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t swing a dead rat without hearing the latest <strong>Stephen King<\/strong> news &#8211; hahaha!<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m complaining. He&#8217;s one of my favourite authors and I saw him in October on the book tour for <strong>Sleeping Beauties<\/strong> with his son, Owen.<\/p>\n<p>So, in honour of that, I picked up my copy of <strong>Revival<\/strong>, chose a random page to see what was hidden inside.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I found\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4374\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/altered-words-beautiful-death\/revival\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/revival.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,909\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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