{"id":1728,"date":"2010-02-28T15:10:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2010-02-28T15:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:10:21","slug":"power-problems-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/02\/28\/power-problems-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Unenlightened (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many people in New York City (and the Northeast in general) hubby Mark and I have been besieged by snow storms this winter.   And we&#8217;ve also lost a chunk of our electric power.  <\/p>\n<p>The good news is Con Ed, our power company, was very responsive.  The bad news is Con Ed says the problem is <strong>ours<\/strong>.  And electricians, always elusive creatures around here, are harder to hire than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well &#8212; at least our computer lines work.<\/p>\n<p>Unenlightened (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A part of our power is dead,<br \/>\nAnd the problem is ours, says Con Ed.<br \/>\nElectricians are busy.<br \/>\n(The storm&#8217;s caused a tizzy.)<br \/>\nBut the phone works. At least we&#8217;ll be fed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/03\/10\/takeout\/\">Ode To Takeout (to be sung to My Favorite Things)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many people in New York City (and the Northeast in general) hubby Mark and I have been besieged by snow storms this winter. And we&#8217;ve also lost a chunk of our electric power. The good news is Con Ed, our power company, was very responsive. The bad news is Con Ed says the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,46,42,59],"tags":[1139,1138,1137,328,1140,862,573],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink-humor","category-house-home-humor","category-limericks","category-weather-humor","tag-con-ed","tag-electric-power","tag-electrician-humor","tag-food-verse","tag-home-limerick","tag-snow-storm","tag-weather-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","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=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}