{"id":2939,"date":"2010-09-13T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T03:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2011-02-06T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T19:22:44","slug":"poem-about-limerick-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/09\/13\/poem-about-limerick-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode To The Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> runs a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/10\/AR2010091003047.html?sid=ST2010091\"> yearly limerick writing competition as part of its <em>Style Invitational<\/em><\/a> and has just announced this year&#8217;s winners. No, I didn&#8217;t win, but I was pleased to receive an Honorable Mention.   <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read some clever, well-written limericks, I recommend reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/10\/AR2010091003047.html?sid=ST2010091\">winning limericks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now, a limerick about writing limericks:<\/p>\n<p>An Ode To The Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Writing lim&#8217;ricks is sometimes confusing<br \/>\nCuz the rules can be tricky and bruising.<br \/>\nBut their sing-songy beat<br \/>\nCan be fun &#8212; just don&#8217;t cheat.<br \/>\nWrite them right and they&#8217;re very amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post runs a yearly limerick writing competition as part of its Style Invitational and has just announced this year&#8217;s winners. No, I didn&#8217;t win, but I was pleased to receive an Honorable Mention. If you&#8217;d like to read some clever, well-written limericks, I recommend reading the winning limericks. And now, a limerick about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1343,65,42,106,64,1775,1764,69],"tags":[601,1455,1454,695],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939"}],"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=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}