{"id":281,"date":"2008-03-07T03:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T07:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/03\/07\/life-stages-limerick-and-haiku-prompt\/"},"modified":"2012-05-19T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T06:02:10","slug":"life-stages-limerick-and-haiku-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/03\/07\/life-stages-limerick-and-haiku-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Stages (Limerick and Haiku Prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s limerick and haiku theme is <em>age<\/em>\u00a0and\/or <em>life stages<\/em>. First, my limerick:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s begin at the top of the page,&#8221;<br \/>\nSaid the coach to the gals on the stage.<br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;re supposed to be teens.<br \/>\nYou should know what that means.<br \/>\nSo\u00a0I&#8217;m begging you\u2014please\u2014act your age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s my\u00a0haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Cranky digestion<br \/>\nRecalcitrant intestines<br \/>\nAging wastefully.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, it\u2019s <strong>your<\/strong> turn. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about <em>age<\/em> and\/or <em>life stages<\/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>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s limerick and haiku theme is age\u00a0and\/or life stages. First, my limerick: &#8220;Let&#8217;s begin at the top of the page,&#8221; Said the coach to the gals on the stage. &#8220;You&#8217;re supposed to be teens. You should know what that means. So\u00a0I&#8217;m begging you\u2014please\u2014act your age.&#8221; And here&#8217;s my\u00a0haiku: Cranky digestion Recalcitrant intestines Aging wastefully. Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,40,104,67,103],"tags":[714,244,712,713,468,470,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13795,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/13795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}