{"id":257,"date":"2008-02-15T02:17:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/02\/15\/theres-no-substitute-for-a-bad-job-limerick-and-haiku-prompt\/"},"modified":"2012-05-15T03:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:56:34","slug":"theres-no-substitute-for-a-bad-job-limerick-and-haiku-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/02\/15\/theres-no-substitute-for-a-bad-job-limerick-and-haiku-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s No Substitute For A Bad Job (Limerick and Haiku Prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s limerick and haiku theme is <em>bad jobs. <\/em>Why? Because everyone I know has had at least one really awful job. As for me,\u00a0I&#8217;ve had more <em>bad jobs<\/em> than I&#8217;d care to remember.\u00a0So here&#8217;s a pair of poems about two of them.\u00a0 First, my limerick about substitute teaching:<\/p>\n<p>In my twenties I substitute taught.<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis a challenging job and it&#8217;s fraught;<br \/>\nAll those calls before dawn<br \/>\nTo instruct devil&#8217;s spawn<br \/>\nMade me anxious, uptight\u2014overwrought.<\/p>\n<p>And now, my haiku about working in a discount department store:<\/p>\n<p>Discount lingerie:<br \/>\nFolded, painstakingly shelved.<br \/>\nSoon to be litter.<\/p>\n<p>Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about\u00a0<em>bad jobs.<\/em>\u00a0When you\u2019ve posted your verse, please return\u00a0here and add a direct link to your themed poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s limerick and haiku theme is bad jobs. Why? Because everyone I know has had at least one really awful job. As for me,\u00a0I&#8217;ve had more bad jobs than I&#8217;d care to remember.\u00a0So here&#8217;s a pair of poems about two of them.\u00a0 First, my limerick about substitute teaching: In my twenties I substitute taught. &#8216;Tis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,39,99,104,42,45,4],"tags":[2130,2132,2133,2135,1147,2131,552,2134,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}