{"id":282,"date":"2008-03-05T00:15:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T04:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/03\/05\/if-i-were-a-judge-limerick\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T03:35:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T07:35:14","slug":"if-i-were-a-judge-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/03\/05\/if-i-were-a-judge-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Were A Judge&#8230; (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked as a lawyer for over a dozen years, but I&#8217;ve never been a judge.\u00a0\u00a0And that&#8217;s probably just as well.\u00a0 Because my rulings might sound something like this:<\/p>\n<p>If I Were A Judge&#8230;<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Your argument doesn&#8217;t make sense.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s absurd and illogical. Hence,<br \/>\nI must find for the plaintiff.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve lost this insane tiff.<br \/>\nYou simply don&#8217;t have a defense.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/totallyoptionalprompts.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/totally-optional-prompt-different-voice.html\">Totally Optional Prompts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/monday-poetry-stretch-mask-poems.html\">Miss Rumphius<\/a> prompt poets to write as somebody else this week.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve posted as an ornery judge &#8230; instead of my usual ornery self.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of prompts, there&#8217;s still\u00a0time to participate in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/02\/29\/pedestrian-poems-limerick-and-haiku-prompt\/\"><em>walking<\/em>-related prompt.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked as a lawyer for over a dozen years, but I&#8217;ve never been a judge.\u00a0\u00a0And that&#8217;s probably just as well.\u00a0 Because my rulings might sound something like this: If I Were A Judge&#8230; By Madeleine Begun Kane Your argument doesn&#8217;t make sense. It&#8217;s absurd and illogical. Hence, I must find for the plaintiff. You&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,42,103],"tags":[663,2101,2102,2100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5859,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}