{"id":17661,"date":"2012-12-13T20:38:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T00:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=17661"},"modified":"2012-12-13T20:38:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T00:38:52","slug":"poetry-reading-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/12\/13\/poetry-reading-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"When Readings Go From Verse To Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to read several limericks at the third annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/403379576374394\/\">Los Angeles Limerick Fest<\/a> Wednesday night, held at the Altadena Ale House.   Since I live in New York City, arrangements were made for me to read them via phone.<\/p>\n<p>As you can tell from this limerick, my reading went awry:<\/p>\n<p>When Readings Go From Verse To Worse<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Reading limerick verse from afar<br \/>\nVia phone to a mike in a bar<br \/>\nIs a risky affair:<br \/>\nNoise and feedback will blare.<br \/>\nPass the sidecar. I&#8217;m still below par.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to read several limericks at the third annual Los Angeles Limerick Fest Wednesday night, held at the Altadena Ale House. Since I live in New York City, arrangements were made for me to read them via phone. As you can tell from this limerick, my reading went awry: When Readings Go From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,41,42,1364,3,119],"tags":[3345,1374,2494,3344,642,3343,4903,639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17661"}],"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=17661"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17675,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17661\/revisions\/17675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}