{"id":1321,"date":"2010-01-11T01:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2010-01-11T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T06:00:41","slug":"gift-giving-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/01\/11\/gift-giving-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Muck Up Gift-Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some men send their wives Hallmark greeting cards.  Then there&#8217;s Dick Kleis of Zwingle, Iowa, who got a bit more &#8220;creative&#8221; on his wife Carole&#8217;s birthday. He spent three hours spelling out a <a href=\"http:\/\/smallbitsandpieces.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/iowa-man-spells-out-wifes-birthday.html\">huge love note in 120,000 pounds of &#8220;good, soft, gushy, warm&#8221; manure.<\/a>  And proving that there&#8217;s no accounting for taste, his wife actually liked it, saying her hubby &#8220;dung good&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Attention, dear hubby Mark &#8230; and any other man who might be inspired by this story on a birthday, anniversary, or Valentine&#8217;s Day: Don&#8217;t even think about it! <\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>How To Muck Up Gift-Giving<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear hubby, I&#8217;d really be miffed<br \/>\nIf you gave me manure as a gift.<br \/>\nNow I don&#8217;t expect plush<br \/>\nIf you ain&#8217;t feeling flush.<br \/>\nBut dung? Sweet revenge will be swift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some men send their wives Hallmark greeting cards. Then there&#8217;s Dick Kleis of Zwingle, Iowa, who got a bit more &#8220;creative&#8221; on his wife Carole&#8217;s birthday. He spent three hours spelling out a huge love note in 120,000 pounds of &#8220;good, soft, gushy, warm&#8221; manure. And proving that there&#8217;s no accounting for taste, his wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,940,77,13,120,939,33,118,42,2,8,16,79],"tags":[942,941,496,946,945,944,947,943],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-of-the-sexes","category-birthday-verse","category-celebrations-poetry","category-family-humor","category-family-verse","category-gift-giving-humor","category-holiday-humor","category-letter-limericks","category-limericks","category-marriage-humor","category-money-humor","category-relationship-humor","category-weird-news-snark","tag-carole-kleis","tag-dick-kleis","tag-gift-humor","tag-greeting-cards-verse","tag-love-notes","tag-manure-humor","tag-spousal-humor","tag-zwingle-iowa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","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=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}