{"id":1349,"date":"2026-02-14T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:41:47","slug":"3rd-place-winner-for-love-stinks-seasonal-by-micah-helzerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2026\/02\/14\/3rd-place-winner-for-love-stinks-seasonal-by-micah-helzerman\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Place Winner for Love Stinks: Seasonal by Micah Helzerman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left\"><blockquote><p>winter is enough.<br>sure it&#8217;s bitter cold and blowing snow,<br>but it is more the lack of sunlight;<br>vitamin d is low<br>and no glitter of gold.<br>i know You have had enough.<br><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left\"><blockquote><p>and people always say<br>\u201cit\u2019s the short days,\u201d but what about the long nights<br>when the clouds block the sky and the northern lights<br>but still You are my north star<br>even when i close my eyes<br>i see it shine bright.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left\"><blockquote><p>i remember that fall day when the sun hit your face<br>it was like you had diamonds on display, out of place<br>it has to be from all the pressure and the wisdom<br>and the weather but this might be another symptom<br>that shows how much i think about<br>You damn spring can&#8217;t come soon enough<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>winter is enough.sure it&#8217;s bitter cold and blowing snow,but it is more the lack of sunlight;vitamin d is lowand no glitter of gold.i know You have had enough. and people always say\u201cit\u2019s the short days,\u201d but what about the long nightswhen the clouds block the sky and the northern lightsbut still You are my north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}