{"id":10779,"date":"2012-01-15T01:04:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T05:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=10779"},"modified":"2012-01-15T01:07:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T05:07:19","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/01\/15\/limerick-of-the-week-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (44)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to announce the latest Limerick of the Week based on submissions (on this blog and on Facebook) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/01\/08\/limerick-bill-limerick-off-monday\/\">last week&#8217;s Limerick-Off.<\/a>  I&#8217;m very pleased to announce the winning Limerick of the Week and the Honorable Mentions:<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to JIM DELANEY who wins Limerick of the Week for this very clever verse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A gal was upset by a bill<br \/>\nFor an item she\u2019d sent to Goodwill:<br \/>\n\u201cFor resale, we\u2019ve got<br \/>\nTo remove every spot,<br \/>\nAnd your coat had a lot, Ms. de Vil.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) <a href=\"http:\/\/murphymusing.blogspot.com\/\">Colleen Murphy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/oddly-enough\/\">Robert Basler<\/a>, and Byron Miller a\/k\/a Errol Nimbly. Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n<p>Colleen Murphy: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A gal was upset by a bill<br \/>\nShe received from her ex-husband Will<br \/>\nFor services rendered<br \/>\nWhich he never tendered<br \/>\nWith any compensable skill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Basler:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man was upset by a bill<br \/>\nWhen he sought a professional kill.<br \/>\nHe said, \u201cHoly s**t!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou charge WHAT for a hit?\u201d<br \/>\nSo a pundit is punditing still.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Byron Miller a\/k\/a Errol Nimbly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man quite upset with a Bill,<br \/>\nSaid the plays Bill had written were swill!<br \/>\nWhence there came no denial<br \/>\nFrom the bard, just a smile<br \/>\nAnd a poke in the eye from his quill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations again to all the winners for your wonderful limericks. And thanks to everyone for your fun submissions.<\/p>\n<p>In the next couple of minutes I\u2019ll be posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/01\/15\/hidden-limerick-off-monday\/\">a new Limerick-Off<\/a>, which gives you yet another opportunity to win Limerick Of The Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to announce the latest Limerick of the Week based on submissions (on this blog and on Facebook) in last week&#8217;s Limerick-Off. I&#8217;m very pleased to announce the winning Limerick of the Week and the Honorable Mentions: Congratulations to JIM DELANEY who wins Limerick of the Week for this very clever verse: A gal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,84,1983,65,42],"tags":[2578,2525,2610,5009,5018,2280,487,523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10779"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}