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They were asked to create an imaginative poem on any theme which demonstrated a command of ambitious vocabulary, imagery, similes, alliteration and other poetic techniques. P5\/4 chose to base their poems on Space while P6\/7 chose the theme &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=15162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Columba&#8217;s Young Writers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4413,61,3360],"tags":[4106],"class_list":["post-15162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-literacy","category-primary-schools","tag-st-columbas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15162\/revisions\/15164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}