{"id":175,"date":"2007-06-12T23:44:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T03:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/06\/12\/limerick-contest-with-money-prizes-and-the-topic-is\/"},"modified":"2012-04-21T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T05:59:08","slug":"limerick-contest-with-money-prizes-and-the-topic-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/06\/12\/limerick-contest-with-money-prizes-and-the-topic-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Writing Contest With Money Prizes &#8230; and the Topic Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed my previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/05\/13\/mothers-day-limerick-contest-results-and-the-winners-are\/\">limerick<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/03\/21\/spring-limerick-contest-results-and-the-winners-are\/\">contests<\/a>, you know that it&#8217;s just about time for another one.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s my challenge: Write a money-related limerick\u00a0(earning it, spending it, saving it, investing it, winning it, wasting it, being taxed on it, etc.)\u00a0and post it here in a comment to this post, no later than Wednesday, June 27, 2007. (You may enter as many limericks as you&#8217;d like.) I\u2019ll announce the winners on Thursday, June 28, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The first prize will be $25. The second prize will be $10. Both prizes will be paid via PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>So, what exactly is a limerick? It&#8217;s a five line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme and a very specific meter exemplified by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/05\/13\/mothers-day-limerick-contest-results-and-the-winners-are\/\">these winning entries.<\/a> (For more information about limericks check out these fine sites: <a href=\"http:\/\/speedysnail.com\/limericks\/metre.html\">Encyclospeedia Oedilfica<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oedilf.com\/db\/Lim.php\">OEDILF.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking forward to reading your entries!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> This contest is now closed, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/06\/28\/money-limerick-contest-results-and-the-winners-are\/\">names of the winners and their winning entries are here.<\/a> Thanks so much for your many excellent submissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed my previous limerick contests, you know that it&#8217;s just about time for another one. So here\u2019s my challenge: Write a money-related limerick\u00a0(earning it, spending it, saving it, investing it, winning it, wasting it, being taxed on it, etc.)\u00a0and post it here in a comment to this post, no later than Wednesday, June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,65,42,8,64],"tags":[2909,539,5009,2889,172,1693,188,1194],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limericks","category-money-humor","category-poetry-contest","tag-financial-limericks","tag-financial-verse","tag-limerick-contest","tag-money-limericks","tag-money-poems","tag-money-poetry","tag-money-verse","tag-writing-contests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13145,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/13145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}