Rivals
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
An arrogant fellow named Kirk
\nThought each of his rivals a jerk.
\nWhen he vied for promotion,
\nHe caused a commotion.
\nNow arrogant Kirk’s out of work.<\/p>\n
(This limerick\u00a0was inspired by Writers Island’s “rivals” prompt.<\/a> And speaking\u00a0 of prompts, there’s plenty of time left to give my latest relatives-related poetry prompt a try<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rivals By Madeleine Begun Kane An arrogant fellow named Kirk Thought each of his rivals a jerk. When he vied for promotion, He caused a commotion. Now arrogant Kirk’s out of work. (This limerick\u00a0was inspired by Writers Island’s “rivals” prompt. And speaking\u00a0 of prompts, there’s plenty of time left to give my latest relatives-related poetry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,42,4],"tags":[681,679,680,644],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-limericks","category-workplace-humor","tag-arrogance-limerick","tag-competition","tag-rivalry-verse","tag-workplace-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}