{"id":17012,"date":"2012-11-09T16:13:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=17012"},"modified":"2012-11-10T03:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T07:28:49","slug":"limerick-riddle-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/11\/09\/limerick-riddle-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you guess the last line (or last word) of this limerick?  I&#8217;ve left empty spaces between lines 4 and 5, so you can guess before reaching the end.  (If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/wait-wait-dont-tell-me\/\">Wait, Wait, Don&#8217;t Tell Me!<\/a> can do this, why can&#8217;t I?)<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Riddle<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s often left after a flood.<br \/>\nWhen you throw it, I might say, &#8220;Oh, crud!&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m beginning to fear<br \/>\nThat my meaning&#8217;s unclear&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe word that I&#8217;m slinging is &#8220;mud.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\n(Thanks to Sunday Scribblings for the <a href=\"http:\/\/sundayscribblings.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/345-mud.html\">inspiration<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you guess the last line (or last word) of this limerick? I&#8217;ve left empty spaces between lines 4 and 5, so you can guess before reaching the end. (If Wait, Wait, Don&#8217;t Tell Me! can do this, why can&#8217;t I?) Limerick Riddle By Madeleine Begun Kane It&#8217;s often left after a flood. When you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,3278,42],"tags":[3280,3283,3279,1883,3282],"class_list":["post-17012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-humor","category-limerick-riddles","category-limericks","tag-fun-and-games","tag-games-puzzles","tag-riddles","tag-sunday-scribblings","tag-wait-wait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012","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=17012"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17071,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012\/revisions\/17071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}