This feels vaguely appropriate for Mother’s Day: <\/p>\n
Freelance Mothering (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
Be it newspapers, Web, magazines,
\nMistakes are in print and on screens:
\nThough I’ve NO kids to nag,
\nI once learned in a mag:
\nI’m the very proud mother of teens.<\/p>\n
True story: Many years ago I wrote several freelance humor columns for Family Circle Magazine<\/em>, one of which was a “humorous contract” between parents and their teen about learning to drive. <\/p>\n I’ll never forget standing on a long line at the supermarket and spotting the issue I was scheduled to appear in, near the cash register. I grabbed the magazine, turned to the back page and excitedly started to read. <\/p>\n Everything look great … until I got to the bio note, which should have read: “Madeleine Begun Kane is a New York-based freelance humor columnist and lawyer.” <\/p>\n Instead, it read, “Madeleine Begun Kane is the mother of teens.”<\/p>\n And no, I do NOT have any children … unless, of course, you count my hubby Mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This feels vaguely appropriate for Mother’s Day: Freelance Mothering (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Be it newspapers, Web, magazines, Mistakes are in print and on screens: Though I’ve NO kids to nag, I once learned in a mag: I’m the very proud mother of teens. True story: Many years ago I wrote several freelance humor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,40,13,120,42,43,18,69],"tags":[4933,3622,1162,1193,3623,1306,5008,2031,713,1166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20731"}],"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=20731"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20749,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20731\/revisions\/20749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}