{"id":26536,"date":"2014-06-06T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=26536"},"modified":"2014-06-06T16:20:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T20:20:51","slug":"rap-lyrics-criminal-cases-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/06\/06\/rap-lyrics-criminal-cases-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rhyme To The Wise (2-Verse Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhyme To The Wise (2-Verse Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A scrappy young felon liked rhyme,<br \/>\nSo he promised himself &#8212; no more crime.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d instead be a rapper.<br \/>\nBut here is the capper:<br \/>\nHis &#8220;confessional tunes&#8221; got him time.<\/p>\n<p>So limerick writers, take heed.<br \/>\nYour rhymes may be next. They could feed<br \/>\nA detective&#8217;s suspicions,<br \/>\nWho deems them admissions.<br \/>\nThen indictment &#8212; your verse his first lead.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Legal experts are currently debating the surprisingly widespread use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/27\/arts\/music\/using-rap-lyrics-as-damning-evidence-stirs-legal-debate.html?_r=0\">rap lyrics in criminal cases.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhyme To The Wise (2-Verse Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane A scrappy young felon liked rhyme, So he promised himself &#8212; no more crime. He&#8217;d instead be a rapper. But here is the capper: His &#8220;confessional tunes&#8221; got him time. So limerick writers, take heed. Your rhymes may be next. They could feed A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,10,42,69],"tags":[3381,146,1166],"class_list":["post-26536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-humor","category-legal-humor","category-limericks","category-writing-humor","tag-crime-punishment-humor","tag-law-humor","tag-writing-publishing-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536","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=26536"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26543,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536\/revisions\/26543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}