{"id":220,"date":"2007-10-29T00:36:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T04:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/10\/29\/me-gamble-no-dice\/"},"modified":"2012-12-04T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T20:15:23","slug":"me-gamble-no-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/10\/29\/me-gamble-no-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"Me Gamble? No Dice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something tells me that writing this post amounts to begging for more spam. If so, I&#8217;ll just have to post some extra <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/09\/15\/spam-haiku\/\">spam haiku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But getting back to today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/weekendwordsmith.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/joker.html\">joker of a topic,<\/a> last year, when my husband Mark and I vacationed in Las Vegas, Mark gambled away twenty bucks &#8212; tops, and I didn&#8217;t\u00a0gamble at all.\u00a0 Okay, I <strong>did<\/strong> get on a plane, but other than that&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to today&#8217;s limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Me Gamble? No Dice!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>You should never play cards on a lark<br \/>\nWith a Vegas-style card-wielding shark.<br \/>\nWhether blackjack or poker,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t deal with a joker<br \/>\nAnd gamble at being a mark.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theultimateholidaysite.com\/holidays\/2013-12\/#!national-dice-day\">National Dice Day<\/a>, December 4th!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something tells me that writing this post amounts to begging for more spam. If so, I&#8217;ll just have to post some extra spam haiku. But getting back to today&#8217;s joker of a topic, last year, when my husband Mark and I vacationed in Las Vegas, Mark gambled away twenty bucks &#8212; tops, and I didn&#8217;t\u00a0gamble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,25,42,8,1524,30,97],"tags":[2977,2979,2980,2092,2974,2975,2976,3327,2978,2205],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling-gaming-humor","category-leisure-time-humor","category-limericks","category-money-humor","category-odd-holidays","category-recreation-humor","category-spam-humor","tag-blackjack","tag-card-humor","tag-card-sharks","tag-december-holidays","tag-gambling-verse","tag-gaming-poem","tag-last-vegas","tag-national-dice-day","tag-poker","tag-weekend-wordsmith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","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=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17477,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/17477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}