{"id":214,"date":"2007-10-21T18:31:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/10\/21\/a-horse-of-a-different-color\/"},"modified":"2012-05-02T01:11:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T05:11:16","slug":"a-horse-of-a-different-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/10\/21\/a-horse-of-a-different-color\/","title":{"rendered":"A Horse Of A Different Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These two\u00a0horse-related poems\u00a0were loosely inspired by this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/totallyoptionalprompts.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/totally-optional-prompt-by-ted-kooser.html\">Totally Optional Prompt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>First, a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>A Horse of A Different Color<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>There are folks who succumb to a weakness<br \/>\nFor races like Belmont and Preakness.<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s only one horse<br \/>\nRace I&#8217;ll bet on\u2014the course<br \/>\nTo the White House\u2014a sign of my geekness?<\/p>\n<p>And now, a haiku about New York City:<\/p>\n<p>Trumpeting cars horns.<br \/>\nClip-clopping carriage horses.<br \/>\nCentral Park Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>(You can find more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/05\/15\/only-in-queens-new-york-limerick\/\">my horse humor here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two\u00a0horse-related poems\u00a0were loosely inspired by this week&#8217;s Totally Optional Prompt: First, a limerick: A Horse of A Different Color By Madeleine Begun Kane There are folks who succumb to a weakness For races like Belmont and Preakness. But there&#8217;s only one horse Race I&#8217;ll bet on\u2014the course To the White House\u2014a sign of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,99,25,42,73,20,1276,30,19],"tags":[1280,1234,1277,1278,258,1282,1281,1279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13303,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/13303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}