{"id":23349,"date":"2013-11-14T19:49:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T23:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=23349"},"modified":"2013-11-14T19:49:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T23:49:41","slug":"dry-run-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/11\/14\/dry-run-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Dry Run (The Evolution of a Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I’m looking for limerick ideas, I sometimes visit idiom list sites, like this one<\/a>. Then I’ll select an idiom that might work meter-wise and that ends with a common rhyme sound. <\/p>\n

And so today, I challenged myself to write a limerick that contains the phrase “dry run.” Unconsciously inspired, perhaps, by the inept roll-out of Obamacare, I wrote these two lines:<\/p>\n

A software firm held a dry run
\nBut the coding, alas, wasn’t done…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I swiftly thought up an acceptable “B-rhyme,” but then got stuck at line 5. The best I could come up with was an ending that employed yet another idiom: “under the gun.” But I still couldn’t think of a line 5 that was even slightly clever. <\/p>\n

And then I got an idea: create some wordplay by revising another line, adding specificity to the subject matter. Here’s the result:<\/p>\n

Limerick Dry Run
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

A software firm held a dry run,
\nBut the arms-tracking code wasn’t done.
\nIt failed test after test,
\nTill the owner confessed:
\n“I’m too stressed to work under the gun.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I’m looking for limerick ideas, I sometimes visit idiom list sites, like this one. Then I’ll select an idiom that might work meter-wise and that ends with a common rhyme sound. And so today, I challenged myself to write a limerick that contains the phrase “dry run.” Unconsciously inspired, perhaps, by the inept roll-out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,15,2273,42,3,52,69],"tags":[3920,1444,4913,686,3579,1163,4903,3435,1567,1166],"class_list":["post-23349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety-stress","category-computer-humor","category-idiom-humor","category-limericks","category-technology-humor","category-wordplay","category-writing-humor","tag-anatomy-of-a-limerick","tag-anxiety-humor","tag-computer-humor","tag-computer-software","tag-idioms-humor","tag-stress-humor","tag-technology-humor","tag-under-the-gun","tag-wordplay-humor","tag-writing-publishing-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349","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=23349"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23370,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349\/revisions\/23370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}