{"id":22037,"date":"2013-08-27T02:48:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T06:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=22037"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:30:36","slug":"i-wrote-this-limerick-just-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/08\/27\/i-wrote-this-limerick-just-because\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wrote This Limerick “Just Because”"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a child, I hated the words “just because,” a favorite parental “explanation.” And yet there’s a “Just Because Day,”<\/a> celebrated on August 27th by people who look at those words rather differently.<\/p>\n

I Wrote This Limerick “Just Because”
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

The parental retort,”Just because,”
\nIs a stale and inadequate clause.
\nMoms might just as well say
\n“It’s the law, so obey!”
\nOr, hemmed in, just try hemming and haws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a child, I hated the words “just because,” a favorite parental “explanation.” And yet there’s a “Just Because Day,” celebrated on August 27th by people who look at those words rather differently. I Wrote This Limerick “Just Because” By Madeleine Begun Kane The parental retort,”Just because,” Is a stale and inadequate clause. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,13,18,1524],"tags":[986,274,3803,5012,5008,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22037"}],"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=22037"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22067,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22037\/revisions\/22067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}