{"id":2391,"date":"2010-05-27T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2010-05-27T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:05:46","slug":"housecleaning-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/05\/27\/housecleaning-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-So-Clean Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow who hated to clean&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s the limerick I wrote with that line. (It\u2019s a two-verser, but a standard one-verse limerick is fine, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>Not-So-Clean Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A fellow who hated to clean<br \/>\nWas a bach&#8217;lor. (You know what I mean.)<br \/>\nHis home was a wreck,<br \/>\nFilled with dust-covered dreck.<br \/>\nThe mess was quite frankly obscene.<\/p>\n<p>When he took a cute date to his place,<br \/>\nShe fled, saying &#8220;What a disgrace!<br \/>\nI refuse to date pigs.<br \/>\nGet me out of these digs.<br \/>\nAnd my phone number? Kindly erase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you\u2019re on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=540784314&#038;v=wall&#038;story_fbid=122987521065693&#038;ref=mf\">Facebook<\/a>, I hope you\u2019ll join my friends in that same activity in my Limerick-Offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line: A fellow who hated to clean&#8230; Here\u2019s the limerick I wrote with that line. (It\u2019s a two-verser, but a standard one-verse limerick is fine, of course.) Not-So-Clean Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane A fellow who hated to clean Was a bach&#8217;lor. (You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,49,57,63,46,104,352,42,103,16],"tags":[1328,4909,590,433,332,4973,531,277,203],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-of-the-sexes","category-behavior-personality","category-chores-humor","category-dating-humor","category-house-home-humor","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","category-relationship-humor","tag-bachelor-humor","tag-battle-of-the-sexes","tag-dating-poem","tag-house-home","tag-household-chores","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-relationship-poetry","tag-spring-cleaning","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","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=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}