{"id":22403,"date":"2013-09-17T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=22403"},"modified":"2013-09-17T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T22:54:12","slug":"observant-brooklyn-drug-dealers-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/09\/17\/observant-brooklyn-drug-dealers-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Observant Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My limerick was inspired by this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/observant-brooklyn-drug-dealers-closed-shabbat-article-1.1450976\">news item<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Group of observant Brooklyn drug dealers told customers they were closed for Shabbat: The five men would text customers with warnings that they were about to stop dealing around sundown Friday, according to a criminal complaint&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The men are accused of peddling heroin, oxycodone, cocaine and other drugs from their Bedford Ave. drug warehouse&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Observant Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>If you plan to sell drugs and break laws,<br \/>\nIt seems God will forgive all your flaws,<br \/>\nAnd you won&#8217;t be a goner<br \/>\nSo long as you honor<br \/>\nShabbat with a crime-breaking pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My limerick was inspired by this news item: Group of observant Brooklyn drug dealers told customers they were closed for Shabbat: The five men would text customers with warnings that they were about to stop dealing around sundown Friday, according to a criminal complaint&#8230; &#8220;The men are accused of peddling heroin, oxycodone, cocaine and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,48,10,42,127],"tags":[247,3381,3843,2009,1654,2329,3844,3841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403"}],"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=22403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22409,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions\/22409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}