{"id":11485,"date":"2012-02-23T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T19:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=11485"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:30:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T19:30:43","slug":"cello-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/02\/23\/cello-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-String Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its latest <em>Thursday Think Tank<\/em>, <em>Poets United<\/em> prompts our muses with the word <a href=\"http:\/\/poetryblogroll.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/think-tank-thursday-85-strings.html\">&#8220;strings.&#8221;<\/a> It struck a chord with me, inspiring this limerick tale of an unstrung cellist:<\/p>\n<p>Last-String Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That conductor has strung me along,&#8221;<br \/>\nSaid a cellist. &#8220;He&#8217;s doing me wrong.<br \/>\nHe promised first chair,<br \/>\nBut instead I&#8217;m nowhere:<br \/>\nStuck in back, the last stand, near the gong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Related Limericks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/04\/07\/cello-humor\/\">Musical Chairs<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/03\/13\/musical-faux-pas\/\">Musical Faux Pas;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/05\/18\/musical-discord\/\">Musical Discord<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its latest Thursday Think Tank, Poets United prompts our muses with the word &#8220;strings.&#8221; It struck a chord with me, inspiring this limerick tale of an unstrung cellist: Last-String Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane &#8220;That conductor has strung me along,&#8221; Said a cellist. &#8220;He&#8217;s doing me wrong. He promised first chair, But instead I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2017,42,24],"tags":[2671,1262,625,1612,1725,1263,1447,1792,272,626,2320],"class_list":["post-11485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honesty-humor","category-limericks","category-music-humor","tag-cellists-limerick","tag-cello-humor","tag-conductor-limerick","tag-dishonesty","tag-lies","tag-music-humor-verse","tag-orchestra-musicians","tag-poets-united","tag-string-players","tag-symphony-verse","tag-thursday-think-tank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485","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=11485"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11498,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions\/11498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}