{"id":19955,"date":"2013-03-27T15:36:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=19955"},"modified":"2013-03-27T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:36:34","slug":"corkscrew-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/03\/27\/corkscrew-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode to the Corkscrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy anniversary to the corkscrew! On March 27, 1860, New Yorker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailymeal.com\/food-almanac-wednesday-march-27-2013\">M.L. Byrn patented a corkscrew design.<\/a> &#8220;It was T-shaped, based on gadgets that had long been used to extract bullets stuck in the muzzles of guns. Corkscrews had been around before Byrn&#8217;s invention, but his design became the standard in America for decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The Corkscrew<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Make a toast to a corking invention&#8211;<br \/>\nAn aid in removing our tension.<br \/>\nDoes your life feel screwed up?<br \/>\nNeed some sips with your sup?<br \/>\nThen give praise for the corkscrew&#8217;s ascension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy anniversary to the corkscrew! On March 27, 1860, New Yorker M.L. Byrn patented a corkscrew design. &#8220;It was T-shaped, based on gadgets that had long been used to extract bullets stuck in the muzzles of guns. Corkscrews had been around before Byrn&#8217;s invention, but his design became the standard in America for decades.&#8221; Limerick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,41,2693,42,1524],"tags":[1375,1374,2063,3561,1837,258,5012,1206,1163,1188,913],"class_list":["post-19955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-food-drink-humor","category-inventions-humor","category-limericks","category-odd-holidays","tag-alcoholic-poems","tag-drinking-limerick","tag-inventions-poem","tag-m-l-byrn","tag-march-holidays","tag-new-york","tag-odd-holidays","tag-patent-humor","tag-stress-humor","tag-tension-humor","tag-wine-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955","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=19955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19960,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955\/revisions\/19960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}