{"id":3101,"date":"2010-09-26T18:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2011-03-31T02:42:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:42:53","slug":"national-punctuation-day-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/09\/26\/national-punctuation-day-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy National Punctuation Day &#8212; Two Days Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I managed to miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/09\/24\/national\/main6897580.shtml\">National Punctuation Day<\/a> on Sept 24th.  &#8220;Shame on me!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Oh my  &#8212; I just used an exclamation point! And I did it again!<\/p>\n<p>As you can tell from my limerick, I&#8217;m not a big fan of the exclamation point, a\/k\/a the bang.<\/p>\n<p>STOP YELLING!!!!!!!!!!!! (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Those points that are meant to exclaim<br \/>\nOften bug me. Yes, bangs seem quite lame.<br \/>\nI abuse them, at times,<br \/>\nWhen excited by rhymes!!!!<br \/>\nBut usage that\u2019s spare is my aim.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, it isn&#8217;t too late to celebrate National Punctuation Day: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpunctuationday.com\/\">NationalPunctuationDay.com<\/a> is doing it with a punctuation-related haiku contest.  (The deadline is September 30th.)<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of contests, the Washington Post is hosting another limerick competition. (As I mentioned previously, I got an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/09\/13\/poem-about-limerick-writing\/\">honorable mention<\/a>  in their last one.)  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/23\/AR2010092302917.html\">Washington Post&#8217;s latest limerick contest<\/a> sounds like a lot of fun.  Much like my Limerick-Offs, WP provides limerick lines. However, the WP contest is definitely harder than mine: I provide A-rhyme first lines, while the WP contest offers us B-rhyme lines. <\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post contest deadline is October 4th. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I managed to miss National Punctuation Day on Sept 24th. &#8220;Shame on me!&#8221; Oh my &#8212; I just used an exclamation point! And I did it again! As you can tell from my limerick, I&#8217;m not a big fan of the exclamation point, a\/k\/a the bang. STOP YELLING!!!!!!!!!!!! (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,54,62,33,53,42,69],"tags":[425,4948,424,422,427,1470,4950,421,2095,1455,1454,1166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101"}],"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=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}