{"id":15539,"date":"2012-08-15T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=15539"},"modified":"2012-08-15T16:05:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:05:03","slug":"conducting-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/08\/15\/conducting-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Conductor (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Three Word Wednesday<\/em> asks us to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threewordwednesday.com\/2012\/08\/3ww-cclxxxv_15.html\">Beat, Pressure, and Substance<\/a> in a poem.  In <em>substance<\/em>, I&#8217;ve <em>beaten<\/em> them into submission, <em>pressuring<\/em>  those words to fit into this limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Conductor (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear conductor, you think you&#8217;re elite,<br \/>\nBut in <em>substance<\/em>, you&#8217;re always off <em>beat<\/em>.<br \/>\nYou <em>pressure<\/em> musicians<br \/>\nWith harsh admonitions.<br \/>\nTo follow your stick&#8217;s no mean feat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Word Wednesday asks us to use Beat, Pressure, and Substance in a poem. In substance, I&#8217;ve beaten them into submission, pressuring those words to fit into this limerick: Dear Conductor (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Dear conductor, you think you&#8217;re elite, But in substance, you&#8217;re always off beat. You pressure musicians With harsh admonitions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[625,1867,1263,205,1840],"class_list":["post-15539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-humor","tag-conductor-limerick","tag-conductors-humor","tag-music-humor-verse","tag-poetry-prompt","tag-three-word-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539","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=15539"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15552,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions\/15552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}