{"id":2076,"date":"2010-04-05T00:21:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T04:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2010-04-05T00:21:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T04:21:48","slug":"headstone-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/04\/05\/headstone-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Put These On Your Headstone (Limericks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My versifying friend <a href=\"http:\/\/bosackerbooks.com\/\">Gerald Bosacker<\/a> has been writing a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/bosackerbooks.com\/index.php?page_id=288\">Poetic Headstones &#8212; safety hints in limerick form,<\/a> which he refers to as &#8220;limerbituaries.&#8221;  When he challenged me to write one, I just had to give it a try:<\/p>\n<p>If your doc says, &#8220;Go under the knife.<br \/>\nOnly surgery&#8217;s saving your life.&#8221;<br \/>\nKindly check out his rep.<br \/>\nMel did not, the poor schlepp.<br \/>\nSo Mel is now missed by his wife.<\/p>\n<p>From there, I moved on to something a bit more warped &#8212; not exactly a safety hint, but a &#8220;limerbituary,&#8221; nonetheless:<\/p>\n<p>Just why is this poor fellow dead?<br \/>\nWell mainly he&#8217;s missing his head.<br \/>\nHe dined with a bad man,<br \/>\nA head-chopping madman,<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s the last time he was fed.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the inspiration, Gerald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My versifying friend Gerald Bosacker has been writing a series of Poetic Headstones &#8212; safety hints in limerick form, which he refers to as &#8220;limerbituaries.&#8221; When he challenged me to write one, I just had to give it a try: If your doc says, &#8220;Go under the knife. Only surgery&#8217;s saving your life.&#8221; Kindly check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[105,48,23,122,42],"tags":[349,1259,392,1258,1257,200,393,1260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076"}],"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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}