{"id":261,"date":"2008-01-20T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/01\/20\/street-metal-limerick\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T04:08:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T08:08:49","slug":"street-metal-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/01\/20\/street-metal-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Metal (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Street Metal (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

While I drive, I espy something bright.
\nTo avoid it, I swerve to the right.
\nPeople honk. (It’s New York.)
\nThen I see — it’s a fork
\nIn the road.\u00a0 That’s what made me uptight.<\/p>\n

(Prompted by Writers Island.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

And speaking of poetry prompts, there’s still lots of time to participate in my latest prompt.\u00a0 My topic is decisions and indecision.<\/a> (Although I usually post prompts every Friday, my current prompt will remain open until February 1 because I’ll be traveling.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Street Metal (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane While I drive, I espy something bright. To avoid it, I swerve to the right. People honk. (It’s New York.) Then I see — it’s a fork In the road.\u00a0 That’s what made me uptight. (Prompted by Writers Island.) And speaking of poetry prompts, there’s still lots of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,73,103],"tags":[2141,2140,2143,2139,2138,2142,4973],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-humor","category-new-york-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","tag-automobile-poem","tag-car-verse","tag-crossroads-humor","tag-driving-limerick","tag-fork-in-the-road","tag-new-york-poetry","tag-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}