{"id":2117,"date":"2010-04-08T00:36:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T04:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2010-04-08T00:36:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T04:36:21","slug":"swimming-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/04\/08\/swimming-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming In Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Levy, a Facebook pal of mine who participates in my Limerick-Offs, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?v=wall&#038;story_fbid=115655565117902&#038;id=1453901163&#038;ref=mf\">challenged me and fellow Facebook friends<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?v=wall&#038;story_fbid=115655565117902&#038;id=1453901163&#038;ref=mf\"> <\/a>to write a limerick starting with this line: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere once was a swimmer named Dean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love a good challenge, so I wrote this three-verse limerick in response:<\/p>\n<p>There once was a swimmer named Dean.<br \/>\nHe was swift and his breast stroke was mean.<br \/>\nWhen he raced he would win.<br \/>\nHe thought losing a sin.<br \/>\nThe guy was a swimming machine.<\/p>\n<p>When he finally lost, he freaked out<br \/>\nAnd suffered a confidence drought &#8212;<br \/>\nCould not handle defeat.<br \/>\nHe determined to beat<br \/>\nUp the fellow who won his last bout.<\/p>\n<p>Poor Dean does not swim anymore.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s in prison, according to lore,<br \/>\nFor killing that swimmer.<br \/>\nHis weapon? Hedge trimmer.<br \/>\nYes, that&#8217;s how he settled his score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Levy, a Facebook pal of mine who participates in my Limerick-Offs, has challenged me and fellow Facebook friends to write a limerick starting with this line: There once was a swimmer named Dean. I love a good challenge, so I wrote this three-verse limerick in response: There once was a swimmer named Dean. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,48,42,19],"tags":[555,1265,679,349,4973,572,203],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-crime-humor","category-limericks","category-sports-humor","tag-athletics","tag-bad-sportsmanship","tag-competition","tag-crime","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-swimming-humor","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","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=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}