{"id":22633,"date":"2013-10-03T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T17:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=22633"},"modified":"2013-10-03T13:32:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T17:32:53","slug":"chubby-checker-twist-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/10\/03\/chubby-checker-twist-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrostic Limerick Ode To Chubby Checker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chubby_Checker\">Chubby Checker<\/a>!  The father of the twist (my favorite dance) was born October 3, 1941. <\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d celebrate with an acrostic limerick, which is as mind-bending as the twist is body-bending:<\/p>\n<p>Acrostic Limerick Ode To Chubby Checker<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>here&#8217;s a dance with a hot checkered past.<br \/>\n<strong>W<\/strong>e grooved on its moves &#8212; whirling fast!<br \/>\n<strong>I<\/strong> still do it today,<br \/>\n<strong>S<\/strong>hifting weight, as I sway&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>T<\/strong>wirling waist motion, saucily cast.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re asking yourself, &#8220;What\u2019s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/category\/acrostic-limericks\/\">acrostic limerick<\/a>?&#8221; here&#8217;s some info:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line should, taken together, spell out the topic of your poem. Please note that it\u2019s NOT enough to spell out a word; Your limerick or other poem must describe or otherwise directly relate to that word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday to Chubby Checker! The father of the twist (my favorite dance) was born October 3, 1941. I thought I&#8217;d celebrate with an acrostic limerick, which is as mind-bending as the twist is body-bending: Acrostic Limerick Ode To Chubby Checker By Madeleine Begun Kane There&#8217;s a dance with a hot checkered past. We grooved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2212,3726,3689,42,103,1775,1764,69],"tags":[3685,2214,3686,1235,3860,4997,3862,319,5016,3861],"class_list":["post-22633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrostic-limericks","category-acrostic-madness","category-acrostic-poetry-prompts","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","category-poetry-forms","category-poetry-rules","category-writing-humor","tag-acrostic-limerick","tag-acrostic-poems","tag-acrostic-poetry-challenge","tag-celebrity-birthdays","tag-chubby-checker","tag-dance-humor","tag-dance-limerick","tag-music-limerick","tag-poetry-forms","tag-twist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633","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=22633"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22643,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633\/revisions\/22643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}