{"id":16237,"date":"2012-09-26T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=16237"},"modified":"2012-09-26T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:40:53","slug":"gambler-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/09\/26\/gambler-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The Gambler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Three Word Wednesday<\/em> asks us to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threewordwednesday.com\/2012\/09\/3ww-ccxci.html\">chance, entice, and savor<\/a> in a poem.  I&#8217;ve coaxed them into this limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The Gambler<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A gambler enticed by the chance<br \/>\nOf a win does a dangerous dance:<br \/>\nHe savors the thrill,<br \/>\nAs he loses free will.<br \/>\nWe all know how it ends in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Word Wednesday asks us to use chance, entice, and savor in a poem. I&#8217;ve coaxed them into this limerick: Limerick Ode To The Gambler By Madeleine Begun Kane A gambler enticed by the chance Of a win does a dangerous dance: He savors the thrill, As he loses free will. We all know how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,102,42,8],"tags":[2136,3210,3209,2473,2974,198,4973,1840],"class_list":["post-16237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-gambling-gaming-humor","category-limericks","category-money-humor","tag-behavior-humor","tag-excitement-humor","tag-free-will","tag-gambling-limerick","tag-gambling-verse","tag-money-finance-humor","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-three-word-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237","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=16237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16244,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions\/16244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}