{"id":216,"date":"2007-10-23T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/10\/23\/toying-with-kites\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T04:18:37","slug":"toying-with-kites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/10\/23\/toying-with-kites\/","title":{"rendered":"Toying With Kites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toying With Kites (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The sight of a kite in the sky<br \/>\nIs delightful and lovely, so why<br \/>\nIs it quite impolite<br \/>\nTo say, &#8220;Go fly a kite!&#8221;<br \/>\nThis idiom just doesn&#8217;t fly.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to celebrate <a href=\"http:\/\/familycrafts.about.com\/od\/holidays\/p\/flyakiteday.htm\">Go Fly A Kite Day<\/a> every June 15th.  (It&#8217;s believed to be the anniversary of Ben Franklin&#8217;s 1752 kite experiment.)<\/p>\n<p>(You can find more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/pocket_bikes.html\">my outdoor sports humor here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toying With Kites (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane The sight of a kite in the sky Is delightful and lovely, so why Is it quite impolite To say, &#8220;Go fly a kite!&#8221; This idiom just doesn&#8217;t fly. Don&#8217;t forget to celebrate Go Fly A Kite Day every June 15th. (It&#8217;s believed to be the anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,53,25,20,30,44,19,52],"tags":[2276,5021,2096,2277,2272,427,2274,273,2275],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies-humor","category-language-humor","category-leisure-time-humor","category-outdoors-humor","category-recreation-humor","category-science-humor","category-sports-humor","category-wordplay","tag-ben-franklin","tag-idiom-humor","tag-june-holidays","tag-kite-experiment","tag-kite-flying","tag-language-satire","tag-outdoors-verse","tag-science","tag-sports-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}