{"id":239,"date":"2007-12-14T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/12\/14\/multitasking-mania-limerick-and-haiku-prompt-2\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:22:25","slug":"multitasking-mania-limerick-and-haiku-prompt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/12\/14\/multitasking-mania-limerick-and-haiku-prompt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Multitasking Mania (Limerick and Haiku Prompt 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my 2nd Poetry Prompt. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) on this week\u2019s theme, which is Multitasking. When you&#8217;ve posted your poem, please return\u00a0here and add a direct link to your multitasking-related\u00a0verse.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my multitasking\u00a0limerick, which was inspired by this news story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_2482620.html?menu=news.quirkies\">Runny Pasta Sauce Nabs Hit And Run Driver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just Desserts<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s risky to drive while you eat,<br \/>\nMost especially pasta with meat:<br \/>\nSlurping red sauce is rash&#8212;<br \/>\nYou might very well crash<br \/>\nAnd leave evidence trails head to feet.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s my multitasking themed haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Lectured to not do<br \/>\nTwo things at once, he obeyed<br \/>\nAnd always did three.<\/p>\n<p>(If you need some tips on limerick or haiku writing, I link to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/limerick-and-haiku-seeds-and-prompts\/\">helpful sites here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  National Pasta Day is October 17 and World Pasta Day is October 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my 2nd Poetry Prompt. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) on this week\u2019s theme, which is Multitasking. When you&#8217;ve posted your poem, please return\u00a0here and add a direct link to your multitasking-related\u00a0verse. Here\u2019s my multitasking\u00a0limerick, which was inspired by this news story: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,12,41,99,104,42,324,103,32],"tags":[327,329,330,328,218,3230,2094,4973,5086],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39713,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/39713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}