{"id":24368,"date":"2014-02-07T01:49:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T05:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=24368"},"modified":"2014-08-30T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T20:35:01","slug":"fun-with-verbs-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/02\/07\/fun-with-verbs-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Verbs (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article over at DVerse Poets discusses the importance of using <a href=\"http:\/\/dversepoets.com\/2014\/01\/16\/banish-boredom-rx-verbs\/\">vivid verbs in poetry.<\/a> And though I completely agree, I couldn&#8217;t resist writing this limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Fun With Verbs (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>One never should write. One should scribe.<br \/>\nOne must NOT coincide. Instead, jibe.<br \/>\nAre verbs that have color<br \/>\nMuch better than duller?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m bewildered &#8212; must drink &#8230; or imbibe.<\/p>\n<p>Boring adjective-freedom&#8217;s my goal,<br \/>\nAnd dull adverbs can sure take their toll.<br \/>\nI abjure and forswear them<br \/>\nAnd simply can&#8217;t bear them.<br \/>\nIn this verse, though, they&#8217;re taking control.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps with Verse 3, I&#8217;ll succeed<br \/>\nIn banishing words I don&#8217;t need.<br \/>\nNot an adverb in sight,<br \/>\nNor an adjective blight.<br \/>\nPush my luck?  No, not me! End of screed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article over at DVerse Poets discusses the importance of using vivid verbs in poetry. And though I completely agree, I couldn&#8217;t resist writing this limerick: Fun With Verbs (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane One never should write. One should scribe. One must NOT coincide. Instead, jibe. Are verbs that have color Much better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,69],"tags":[600,1374,2737,1166],"class_list":["post-24368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-limericks","category-writing-humor","tag-drink-verse","tag-drinking-limerick","tag-dverse","tag-writing-publishing-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368","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=24368"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28176,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368\/revisions\/28176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}