{"id":21455,"date":"2013-07-04T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=21455"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T18:59:30","slug":"acrostic-madness-edible-acrostic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/07\/04\/acrostic-madness-edible-acrostic\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrostic Madness (Edible Acrostic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve decided to post an extra challenge this week, just in case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/category\/limerick-offs\/\">my Limerick-Offs<\/a> aren\u2019t keeping you busy enough. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write an <strong>ACROSTIC<\/strong> poem that has something to do with <strong>FOOD<\/strong>, in any form you choose, be it limerick, haiku, quatrain, tanka, etc.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s an acrostic poem?<\/p>\n<p>In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line should, taken together, spell out the topic of your poem. Please note that it&#8217;s NOT enough to spell out a word; Your limerick or other poem must describe or otherwise directly relate to that word.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll illustrate with an acrostic limerick, bolding the first letter of each line, for emphasis:<\/p>\n<p>Acrostic Spice (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>ometimes people like food that is bland.<br \/>\n<strong>P<\/strong>erhaps some enjoy cooking that&#8217;s canned.<br \/>\n<strong>I<\/strong>, in case I can&#8217;t savor<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong>uisine that lacks flavor,<br \/>\n<strong>E<\/strong>mbellish the dishes, by hand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> June 10th is <a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/10\/national-herbs-and-spices-day\/\">National Herbs And Spices Day<\/a>  and August 19 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdkitchen.com\/recipes\/articles\/view\/180\/1\/National-Hot-and-Spicy-Food-Day.html\">Hot And Spicy Food Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve decided to post an extra challenge this week, just in case my Limerick-Offs aren\u2019t keeping you busy enough. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write an ACROSTIC poem that has something to do with FOOD, in any form you choose, be it limerick, haiku, quatrain, tanka, etc. What\u2019s an acrostic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2212,3726,3689,41,42,1524,103,1775,1764,69],"tags":[3685,2214,3686,1941,4436,2096,4164,5012,5016,3725,2229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455"}],"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=21455"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33767,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions\/33767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}