{"id":22180,"date":"2013-09-02T16:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=22180"},"modified":"2013-09-02T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:39:02","slug":"italy-economy-infidelity-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/09\/02\/italy-economy-infidelity-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Poor Italian Husbands (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those Poor Italian Husbands (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>In Italy, men are bereft:<br \/>\nThe economy&#8217;s lost all its heft.<br \/>\nThey no longer can rent<br \/>\nSecond places &#8212; they&#8217;re spent!<br \/>\nSo most have no mistresses left.<\/p>\n<p>My limerick was inspired by this <em>Daily Beast<\/em> article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/08\/26\/the-economic-crisis-makes-infidelity-too-expensive.html\"><em>The Economic Crisis Makes Infidelity Too Expensive,<\/em><\/a> which quotes an Italian husband, who complained: &#8220;It really messed up my romantic life.&#8221; (The pitiful fellow  had been forced to rent out his bachelor pad in Rome.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those Poor Italian Husbands (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane In Italy, men are bereft: The economy&#8217;s lost all its heft. They no longer can rent Second places &#8212; they&#8217;re spent! So most have no mistresses left. My limerick was inspired by this Daily Beast article: The Economic Crisis Makes Infidelity Too Expensive, which quotes an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,13,120,42,2,8,110],"tags":[3814,3818,2401,3816,3815,3817,383,198,188,4976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180"}],"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=22180"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22186,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180\/revisions\/22186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}