{"id":31890,"date":"2015-04-21T16:07:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=31890"},"modified":"2015-04-21T18:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T22:29:37","slug":"eight-lines-verse-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2015\/04\/21\/eight-lines-verse-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Lines On Demand (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A verse of eight lines
\nhas been ordered today.
\nSo a lim’rick won’t fit.
\nMust I really obey?<\/p>\n

I’ve already done five.
\nCounting this one, it’s six.
\nSince I’ve traveled this far,
\nguess I’ll finish, for kicks.<\/p>\n

(DVerse Poets asks for 8-line poems<\/a> today.)<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> I just realized that today’s double dactyl for John Mortimer (of Rumpole fame) also fits the bill:<\/p>\n

Higgledy Piggledy
\nJohn Clifford Mortimer
\nBarrister, Author,
\nRumpolian wit.<\/p>\n

Bailey, his bailiwick
\nPrima-facetiously
\nHe and his Horace sure
\nLoved to acquit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A verse of eight lines has been ordered today. So a lim’rick won’t fit. Must I really obey? I’ve already done five. Counting this one, it’s six. Since I’ve traveled this far, guess I’ll finish, for kicks. (DVerse Poets asks for 8-line poems today.) UPDATE: I just realized that today’s double dactyl for John Mortimer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2737,1166],"class_list":["post-31890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-humor","tag-dverse","tag-writing-publishing-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890","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=31890"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31905,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890\/revisions\/31905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}