{"id":14901,"date":"2012-07-10T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=14901"},"modified":"2014-06-25T15:04:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T19:04:01","slug":"national-clerihew-day-july-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/07\/10\/national-clerihew-day-july-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy National Clerihew Day! (July 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theultimateholidaysite.com\/holidays\/2012-7\/#!national-clerihew-day\">today (July 10) is National Clerihew Day<\/a>. What the heck&#8217;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clerihew\">a clerihew<\/a>?  It&#8217;s a &#8220;whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, clerihews are four-lines long with an A-A-B-B rhyme scheme and irregular meter. The first line names a person &#8212; the subject of the poem.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple I&#8217;ve written about writers:<\/p>\n<p>Edgar Allen Poe<br \/>\nA writerly bro<br \/>\nWho&#8217;s famed for the Raven.<br \/>\nWhat a scary poem maven!<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>The author George Orwell<br \/>\nWe ought not ignore well;<br \/>\nHis writings polemic<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t at all academic.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>And here are two about actresses:<\/p>\n<p>Bette Davis<br \/>\nFilm joy gave us.<br \/>\nSeduced gals and guys<br \/>\nWith Bette Davis Eyes.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Mae West<br \/>\nFor life had zest.<br \/>\nStoked gals and blokes<br \/>\nWith &#8220;evil&#8221; jokes.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>(You can find my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/category\/political-clerihews\/\">political clerihews here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to George Orwell, born June 25, 1903.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that today (July 10) is National Clerihew Day. What the heck&#8217;s a clerihew? It&#8217;s a &#8220;whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.&#8221; More specifically, clerihews are four-lines long with an A-A-B-B rhyme scheme and irregular meter. The first line names a person &#8212; the subject of the poem. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3134,178,176,77,56,3135,33,42,1775,116],"tags":[3133,3127,3130,3129,3132,2099,4200,3131,3128,5016],"class_list":["post-14901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actors-actresses","category-authors","category-books","category-celebrations-poetry","category-celebrity-humor","category-clerihews","category-holiday-humor","category-limericks","category-poetry-forms","category-public-figures","tag-bette-davis","tag-clerihew","tag-edgar-allen-poe","tag-edmund-clerihew-bentley","tag-george-orwell","tag-july-holidays","tag-june-birthdays","tag-mae-west","tag-national-clerihew-day","tag-poetry-forms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901","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=14901"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26887,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions\/26887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}