{"id":190,"date":"2007-08-07T02:01:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/08\/07\/this-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test\/"},"modified":"2011-08-25T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:41:01","slug":"this-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/08\/07\/this-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test\/","title":{"rendered":"This Doesn&#8217;t Pass The Smell Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this odd story, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/08\/06\/1997270.htm\">smoking ban in British pubs has managed to make British bars smell even worse.<\/a>\u00a0 Apparently, the acrid smell of smoke is a delight compared to all the foul odors smoke used to mask: &#8220;stale food and beer, damp, sweat and body odour, drains and &#8211; how do you put this nicely &#8211; flatulence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the solution?\u00a0 You might think cleaning supplies would be in order. But you would be wrong.\u00a0 Instead, they&#8217;re pumping perfume into 2000 pubs &#8212; the essence of\u00a0 &#8220;leather, freshly cut grass, and ocean breeze fragrances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This cries out for a limerick, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Doesn&#8217;t Pass The Smell Test<\/strong> (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The stench of Brit pubs once was hidden<br \/>\nBy smoke, but now smoking&#8217;s forbidden,<br \/>\nAnd since folks can&#8217;t abide<br \/>\nThe foul odor, they hide<br \/>\nIt with pumped-in-perfume.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not kiddin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>(You can find\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/food_and_drink.html\">more of my food and drink limericks and humor here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this odd story, a smoking ban in British pubs has managed to make British bars smell even worse.\u00a0 Apparently, the acrid smell of smoke is a delight compared to all the foul odors smoke used to mask: &#8220;stale food and beer, damp, sweat and body odour, drains and &#8211; how do you put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42,91,90],"tags":[2463,2458,2464,2460,2267,2461,2465,2459,2462],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink-humor","category-limericks","category-smell-humor","category-smoking-humor","tag-body-odor","tag-british-pubs","tag-flatulence","tag-foul-smelling-pubs","tag-great-britain","tag-masking-odors","tag-perfume","tag-smoking-ban","tag-stale-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","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=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8748,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}