{"id":17376,"date":"2012-11-28T17:18:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2012-11-28T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:18:49","slug":"bridging-gap-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/11\/28\/bridging-gap-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Knotty Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wonder Wednesday<\/em>, over at <em>Poets United<\/em>, prompts us to write a poem about <a href=\"http:\/\/poetryblogroll.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/wonder-wednesday-11-bridge.html\">bridges or bridging gaps.<\/a> I decided to cross that bridge with a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Knotty Negotiations<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a challenge to bridge the large gap<br \/>\nBetween parties who&#8217;d rather just flap<br \/>\nAnd complain that they&#8217;re right,<br \/>\nWhile their rivals just fight<br \/>\nCuz they&#8217;re mean. So I&#8217;d rather just nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder Wednesday, over at Poets United, prompts us to write a poem about bridges or bridging gaps. I decided to cross that bridge with a limerick: Knotty Negotiations By Madeleine Begun Kane It&#8217;s a challenge to bridge the large gap Between parties who&#8217;d rather just flap And complain that they&#8217;re right, While their rivals just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,49,42,103,16,55],"tags":[3310,3312,450,3311,1792,3313],"class_list":["post-17376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety-stress","category-behavior-personality","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","category-relationship-humor","category-sleep-humor","tag-bridge-humor","tag-bridging-gaps","tag-negotiation","tag-negotiations-limerick","tag-poets-united","tag-wonder-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376","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=17376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17383,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions\/17383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}