{"id":11063,"date":"2012-01-28T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2012-01-28T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:37:50","slug":"muse-creativity-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/01\/28\/muse-creativity-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse Amusement (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115239459223942198830?rel=author\">my GooglePlus<\/a> feed, when I encountered this post by <a href=\"http:\/\/tylerpoetic.blogspot.com\/\">poet Tyler Lovelace<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hate when the first verse of a poem writes itself just to tease you. Then you have to force a lot of the poem out.<\/p>\n<p>I swear my muses are all teases and skanks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tyler&#8217;s post prompted me to write this comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trimmed down, that could make you a good limerick first line:<br \/>\n&#8220;My muses are teases and skanks &#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tyler immediately (and generously) said the line was mine, thereby becoming my non-tease, non-skanky muse. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Muse Amusement<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>My muses are teases and skanks&#8212;<br \/>\nAt their worst when my mind&#8217;s drawing blanks.<br \/>\nWhen they offer me rot,<br \/>\nThen I warn them, &#8220;Do not<br \/>\nExpect thanks for a concept that tanks!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing my GooglePlus feed, when I encountered this post by poet Tyler Lovelace: I hate when the first verse of a poem writes itself just to tease you. Then you have to force a lot of the poem out. I swear my muses are all teases and skanks. Tyler&#8217;s post prompted me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,42,1831,69],"tags":[236,2404,1796,1179,2624,1843,1166],"class_list":["post-11063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-limericks","category-social-media-humor","category-writing-humor","tag-creativity","tag-googleplus","tag-muse","tag-social-media-poetry","tag-tyler-lovelace","tag-writers-block","tag-writing-publishing-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=11063"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11072,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}