{"id":241,"date":"2008-02-22T01:47:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T05:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/02\/22\/no-time-to-say-hello-goodbye-limerick-haiku-prompt\/"},"modified":"2012-05-15T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:38:00","slug":"no-time-to-say-hello-goodbye-limerick-haiku-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/02\/22\/no-time-to-say-hello-goodbye-limerick-haiku-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"No Time To Say Hello, Goodbye&#8230; (Limerick &#038; Haiku Prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s limerick and haiku theme is <em>time<\/em>.\u00a0First, my limerick:<\/p>\n<p>No Time To Say Hello, Goodbye&#8230;<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m late and I can&#8217;t miss this train!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s arrived, and I&#8217;m here, yet in vain:<br \/>\nI must climb down these stairs,<br \/>\nBut some guys, broad as bears,<br \/>\nHave me blocked\u2014all my plans down the drain.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s <em>time <\/em>for my\u00a0<em>time<\/em>-related haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Time passes\u00a0too fast.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d surely bitch about it,<br \/>\nIf\u00a0I just had time.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s <strong>your <\/strong>turn. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about <em>time<\/em>. When you\u2019ve posted your verse, please return\u00a0here and add a direct link to your themed poetry.<\/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\/\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">helpful sites here.<\/font><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s limerick and haiku theme is time.\u00a0First, my limerick: No Time To Say Hello, Goodbye&#8230; By Madeleine Begun Kane I&#8217;m late and I can&#8217;t miss this train! It&#8217;s arrived, and I&#8217;m here, yet in vain: I must climb down these stairs, But some guys, broad as bears, Have me blocked\u2014all my plans down the drain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81,112,104,42,103,111,6],"tags":[2123,4973,2121,2122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13657,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/13657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}