{"id":153,"date":"2007-04-29T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/04\/29\/mothers-day-limerick-contest-with-money-prizes\/"},"modified":"2010-03-13T20:15:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T00:15:36","slug":"mothers-day-limerick-contest-with-money-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/04\/29\/mothers-day-limerick-contest-with-money-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day Limerick Contest &#8230; With Money Prizes (Updated: Prize Money Increase)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/03\/21\/spring-limerick-contest-results-and-the-winners-are\/\">spring limerick contest<\/a> was such a success, I&#8217;ve decided to hold limerick contests regularly.\u00a0\u00a0And it&#8217;s time for another one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0here\u2019s my challenge: Write a limerick related\u00a0to the subject of mothers and post it here in a comment to this post no later than Saturday, May 12, 2007.\u00a0 I\u2019ll announce the winners on Mother&#8217;s Day, May 13, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The first prize will be $25.\u00a0 The second prize will be\u00a0$10.\u00a0 Both prizes will be paid via PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>So, what exactly is a limerick?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a\u00a0five line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme and a very specific meter exemplified by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/03\/21\/spring-limerick-contest-results-and-the-winners-are\/\">these winning entries.<\/a> (For more information about limericks check out these fine sites: <a href=\"http:\/\/speedysnail.com\/limericks\/metre.html\">Encyclospeedia Oedilfica<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oedilf.com\/db\/Lim.php\">OEDILF.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking forward to reading your entries!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The prize money has just doubled, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musecrafters.com\/bloggingpoet\/270\/My+Entry+In+Mad+Kane%26%23039%3Bs+Mothers+Day+Limerick+Contest.html\">a matching funds contest sponsorship<\/a> by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musecrafters.com\/bloggingpoet\">Billy Jones a\/k\/a Billy The Blogging Poet.<\/a>\u00a0Thanks to Billy&#8217;s generosity,\u00a0 there now will be $50 in first prize money and $20 in second prize money.\u00a0Very cool, Billy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 2:<\/strong> This contest is now over, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/05\/13\/mothers-day-limerick-contest-results-and-the-winners-are\/\">winners list and winning entries are posted here.<\/a> Thanks for your wonderful entries, and stay tuned &#8212; another limerick contest is coming soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My spring limerick contest was such a success, I&#8217;ve decided to hold limerick contests regularly.\u00a0\u00a0And it&#8217;s time for another one.\u00a0 So\u00a0here\u2019s my challenge: Write a limerick related\u00a0to the subject of mothers and post it here in a comment to this post no later than Saturday, May 12, 2007.\u00a0 I\u2019ll announce the winners on Mother&#8217;s Day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,13,120,33,65,42,18,64,16],"tags":[5009,1195,1193,1196,4916,5008,1194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}