{"id":1574,"date":"2010-02-17T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2010-02-17T17:33:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:33:57","slug":"limerick-poetry-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/02\/17\/limerick-poetry-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Endearing Limerick (Poetry Prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this as a first line:<\/p>\n

“An elderly fellow named James…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s mine:<\/p>\n

Endearing Limerick
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

An elderly fellow named James
\nHad trouble remembering names,
\nSo he often used “dear,”
\nWhich hurt his career.
\nHis defense? “I just did it to dames.”<\/p>\n

Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you\u2019re on Facebook<\/a>, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity in my Limerick-Offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this as a first line: “An elderly fellow named James…” Here’s mine: Endearing Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane An elderly fellow named James Had trouble remembering names, So he often used “dear,” Which hurt his career. His defense? “I just did it to dames.” Please […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,11,49,54,38,104,352,42,108,103,4],"tags":[1089,648,836,205,1090,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574"}],"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=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}