{"id":293,"date":"2008-04-01T00:22:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T04:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/04\/01\/humor-carnival-1-april-fools-edition\/"},"modified":"2010-11-09T04:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T08:18:49","slug":"humor-carnival-1-april-fools-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/04\/01\/humor-carnival-1-april-fools-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor Carnival 1 (April Fools Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy April Fools Day!\u00a0 And welcome to the first edition of the\u00a0Humor Carnival, the only carnival that (so far as I know) let&#8217;s you vote for your favorite post. And awards a $10 PayPal cash prize to whichever site gets the most votes.<\/p>\n<p>I was astonished to receive 59 submissions &#8212; not bad for a spanking new carnival. Okay, some\u00a0submitters seem to have confused this with the\u00a0Carnival of\u00a0Spam.\u00a0 But still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m posting my favorite twelve submissions &#8212; humor\u00a0that made me laugh out loud or giggle uncontrollably. These pieces, song parodies,\u00a0verse, and even a cartoon\u00a0run the gamut from relationship humor, psychiatry humor, and political satire, to religion humor, job hunting humor, money humor, and humor about trying to write humor.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy these funny posts as much as I did.\u00a0 And when you&#8217;re done reading, please don&#8217;t forget to vote for your favorite:<\/p>\n<p>Dale presents <a href=\"http:\/\/thespeciousreport.com\/news.aspx?newsnum=7070163\">Twenty Ways The Specious Report Is Like The Onion<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespeciousreport.com\">The Specious Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don Davis presents <a href=\"http:\/\/satiricalpolitical.com\/?p=1603\">Obama Sings: Jeremiah&#8217;s Bull is My Bog<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/satiricalpolitical.com\">The Satirical Political Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Dare presents <a href=\"http:\/\/dareland.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/product-i-want-to-see-passenger.html\">The Passenger Psychiatrist<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/dareland.blogspot.com\/\">Dareland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Holly Ord presents <a href=\"http:\/\/menstrualpoetry.com\/eastermenstrual-poetry-style\">Easter\u2013Menstrual Poetry Style!<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/menstrualpoetry.com\">Menstrual Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Deckers presents <a href=\"http:\/\/laughing-stalk.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/this-aint-no-gift-of-magi.html\">This Ain&#8217;t No &#8220;Gift of the Magi&#8221;<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/laughing-stalk.blogspot.com\/\">Laughing Stalk by Erik Deckers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Angelawd presents <a href=\"http:\/\/angelawd.com\/2008\/02\/26\/i-finally-have-permission-to-post-about-this\/\">I finally have permission to post about this.<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/angelawd.com\">angelawd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Durai presents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nshima.com\/2008\/03\/column-obama-be.html\">Column: Obama belongs to all of us<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nshima.com\/\">Nshima &#038; Curry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Diamond presents <a href=\"http:\/\/barbaradiamond.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/iraq-war-glossary.html\">Iraq War Glossary<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/barbaradiamond.blogspot.com\/\">AMERICAN SCOFFLAW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Orven Enoveso presents <a href=\"http:\/\/mywritingexercises.blogdrive.com\/archive\/7.html\">Creative Writing Exercises<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/mywritingexercises.blogdrive.com\/\">Writing Exercises<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Zongker presents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destroydebt.com\/blogs\/p\/126-what-if-everyone-practiced-universal-default.html\">Dan Gibson&#8217;s Cartoon: What if Everyone Practiced Universal Default?<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destroydebt.com\/\">Destroy Debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brittany Fischer presents <a href=\"http:\/\/brittanyshotspots.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/27\/learn-to-walk-the-walk-of-shame-that-is\/\">Walkin the Walk (of Shame, that is)<\/a> posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/brittanyshotspots.wordpress.com\">Brittany&#8217;s Hotspots<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy April Fools Day!\u00a0 And welcome to the first edition of the\u00a0Humor Carnival, the only carnival that (so far as I know) let&#8217;s you vote for your favorite post. And awards a $10 PayPal cash prize to whichever site gets the most votes. I was astonished to receive 59 submissions &#8212; not bad for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[486,4979,672],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-carnival","tag-humor-awards","tag-humor-carnival","tag-money-prizes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}