{"id":255,"date":"2008-01-17T17:12:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T21:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/01\/17\/decisions-decisions-decisions-limerick-and-haiku-prompt\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T01:26:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T05:26:48","slug":"decisions-decisions-decisions-limerick-and-haiku-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/01\/17\/decisions-decisions-decisions-limerick-and-haiku-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Decisions, Decisions, Decisions (Limerick and Haiku Prompt &#8212; Open Until February 1st) (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s limerick and haiku theme is <em>decisions<\/em> and <em>indecision<\/em>.\u00a0 First, my limerick:<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing I cannot abide,<br \/>\nIt is people who cannot decide<br \/>\nWhat to eat, where to go,<br \/>\nHot or cold, fast or slow.<br \/>\nDo you think I should take it in stride?<\/p>\n<p>And now, my haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Postponing decisions<br \/>\nEliminates your options:<br \/>\nFate accompli.<\/p>\n<p>Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about <em>decisions<\/em> or <em>indecision<\/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<p><strong>NOTE: <\/strong>Thanks to the few of you who have been joining in on the limerick and haiku prompt\u00a0fun. But I\u2019m beginning to wonder if it makes sense to continue these prompts, with so few people participating.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what the problem is. Lack of publicity? The themes? The difficulty in writing limericks? If anyone has any suggestions as to how to widen the appeal of these prompts, I\u2019d appreciate your posting them in the comments section. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Although I usually post prompts every Friday, my current prompt will remain open until February 1st because I\u2019ll be traveling.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to keep up to date with my poetry prompts,\u00a0you can subscribe to either my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/feed\/\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">entire\u00a0blog feed<\/font><\/a> or just to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/category\/limerick-haiku-seeds\/feed\/\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">limerick and haiku prompt topic feed.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s limerick and haiku theme is decisions and indecision.\u00a0 First, my limerick: If there&#8217;s one thing I cannot abide, It is people who cannot decide What to eat, where to go, Hot or cold, fast or slow. Do you think I should take it in stride? And now, my haiku: Postponing decisions Eliminates your options: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,99,104,42,22],"tags":[2147,2144,2145,2146],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-haiku","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limericks","category-mental-health-humor","tag-behavior-haiku","tag-decision-humor","tag-indecisiveness-limerick","tag-personality-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13368,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/13368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}