{"id":2821,"date":"2010-08-22T16:55:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2016-10-31T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T17:08:11","slug":"magic-tricks-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/08\/22\/magic-tricks-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricky Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line: <\/p>\n

A fellow who loved doing tricks…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s mine:<\/p>\n

Tricky Limerick
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

A fellow who loved doing tricks
\nHad begun doing magic at six.
\nHe was jailed for his skill
\nCuz he used it for ill —
\nMade his enemies vanish for kicks.<\/p>\n

Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you\u2019re on Facebook<\/a>, I hope you\u2019ll join my friends in that same activity in my Limerick-Offs.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> I\u2019ve just learned via Cloaked Monk<\/a> that today, March 24th, is Harry Houdini’s birthday. He was born was born Erich Weiss (spellings vary) on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. Happy birthday Harry!<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2:<\/strong> October 31st (the anniversary of Houdini’s death) is National Magic Day<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line: A fellow who loved doing tricks… Here’s mine: Tricky Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane A fellow who loved doing tricks Had begun doing magic at six. He was jailed for his skill Cuz he used it for ill — Made his enemies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,10,104,352,42,1524,103],"tags":[349,1440,4899,1157,1223,4898,1224,2094,5012,4973,203],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-humor","category-legal-humor","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-odd-holidays","category-poetry-prompts","tag-crime","tag-enemies-humor","tag-houdini","tag-jail-prison-humor","tag-magic","tag-magic-day","tag-magician","tag-october-holidays","tag-odd-holidays","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","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=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38775,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/38775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}