{"id":23554,"date":"2014-05-04T01:38:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T05:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=23554"},"modified":"2014-05-04T01:48:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T05:48:15","slug":"break-limerick-off-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/05\/04\/break-limerick-off-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Break (Limerick-Off Monday)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you\u2019re a Facebook user, on Facebook too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here\u2019s last week\u2019s Limerick Of The Week Winner<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, cleverness, and humor. (If you\u2019re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, here’s my How To Write A Limerick<\/em><\/a> article.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll announce the Limerick of the Week Winner next Sunday, right before I post next week\u2019s Limerick-Off. So that gives you a full week to submit your clever, polished verse. Your submission deadline is Saturday at 11:00 p.m. (Eastern Time.)<\/p>\n

I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:<\/p>\n

A fellow was taking a break…*<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

or<\/p>\n

A woman at last caught a break…*<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

or<\/p>\n

A fellow complained that his brake…*<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

or<\/p>\n

A woman was trying to break…*<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*<\/strong>(Please note that minor variations to my first lines are acceptable. However, rhyme words may not<\/strong> be altered, except by using homonyms or homophones.)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my limerick:<\/p>\n

Limerick Break
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

An actress at last caught a break —
\nA theater lead; “gal on the make.”
\nBut at “break a leg,” something
\nWent wrong — quite a bum thing:
\nHers broke when she tripped on a snake.<\/p>\n

Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you\u2019re on Facebook, I hope you\u2019ll join my friends in that same activity on my Facebook Limerick-Off post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please email Madkane@MadKane.com Subject: MadKane’s Newsletter<\/a>. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you\u2019re a Facebook user, on Facebook too. The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here\u2019s last week\u2019s Limerick Of The Week Winner.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,104,3270,1192,65,352,42,103,64],"tags":[536,4105,2482,1391,3271,5009,4973,203],"class_list":["post-23554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-contests","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-competition","category-limerick-contest","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","category-poetry-contest","tag-actor-humor","tag-actress-humor","tag-competition-limerick","tag-injury-verse","tag-limerick-challenge","tag-limerick-contest","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554","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=23554"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25985,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554\/revisions\/25985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}