{"id":205,"date":"2006-04-20T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T01:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/20\/flarf-gesundheit-more-spam-poetry-prior-art\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T21:58:38","slug":"flarf-gesundheit-more-spam-poetry-prior-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/flarf-gesundheit-more-spam-poetry-prior-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Flarf! Gesundheit. More Spam Poetry prior art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Forget &#8220;spoetry&#8221;; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2006\/04\/17\/flarf-highfalutin-wo.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>, experiments in the field stretch back a few years, and were known as &#8220;flarf&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/flarffestival.blogspot.com\">The Flarf Festival<\/a> is a series of live events in New York City between April 20-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For archival purposes, here are my own three attempts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/spam-poem-no-3-general-flood\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"104\">General Flood<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/spam-poem-no-2-250-ways-to-thank-you\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"43\">250 Ways to Thank You<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/spam-poem-no-1-here-we-come\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9\">Here We Come!<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget &#8220;spoetry&#8221;; according to Boing Boing, experiments in the field stretch back a few years, and were known as &#8220;flarf&#8221;. The Flarf Festival is a series of live events in New York City between April 20-22. For archival purposes, here are my own three attempts: General Flood 250 Ways to Thank You Here We Come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1406,1167,1168,1404,1405,1407],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spam-poetry","tag-flarf","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-spam","tag-spoem","tag-spoetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/spoetry.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-3j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":104,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/spam-poem-no-3-general-flood\/","url_meta":{"origin":205,"position":0},"title":"Spam Poem No. 3: &#8220;General Flood&#8221;","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"December 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Please enjoy \"General Flood\", the third in our ongoing series of flarf (spam poetry), assembled from the nonsense I find in my spam folder. 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