{"id":2200,"date":"2010-04-19T00:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T04:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2010-04-19T02:12:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T06:12:33","slug":"miser-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/04\/19\/miser-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Miserly Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A miserly fellow name Joe&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s the limerick I wrote with that line. (It\u2019s a two-verser, but a standard one-verse limerick is fine, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>Miserly Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A miserly fellow name Joe<br \/>\nWas obsessed with his weekly cash flow.<br \/>\nThe guy was so petty,<br \/>\nHe  ordered wife Betty<br \/>\nTo  flush once a day.  She said, &#8220;No!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then he yelled, &#8220;You are wasteful and low!&#8221;<br \/>\nBut she said, &#8220;It&#8217;s distasteful.  No go!&#8221;<br \/>\nSo he sued for divorce&#8212;<br \/>\nAn asinine course.<br \/>\nNow the lawyers have all of his dough.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you\u2019re on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=540784314&#038;v=wall&#038;story_fbid=110384735664055&#038;ref=mf\">Facebook<\/a>, I hope you\u2019ll join my friends in that same activity in my Limerick-Offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line: A miserly fellow name Joe&#8230; Here\u2019s the limerick I wrote with that line. (It\u2019s a two-verser, but a standard one-verse limerick is fine, of course.) Miserly Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane A miserly fellow name Joe Was obsessed with his weekly cash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,46,10,104,352,42,2,8,1292,103],"tags":[827,1295,1264,233,589,1296,172,1293,1294,4973,1297,203],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-house-home-humor","category-legal-humor","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-marriage-humor","category-money-humor","category-obsessions-humor","category-poetry-prompts","tag-bathroom-humor","tag-cash-flow-humor","tag-divorce-humor","tag-law-limerick","tag-marriage-verse","tag-misers","tag-money-poems","tag-obsession-verse","tag-pettiness","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-toilet-humor","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","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=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}