{"id":3343,"date":"2010-10-22T19:28:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T23:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2010-10-22T19:28:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T23:28:38","slug":"style-invitational-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/10\/22\/style-invitational-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Limerick Loser&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all the Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/22\/AR2010102203147.html?sid=ST2010102204199\">Style Invitational limerick contest winners!<\/a>  (This is the contest I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/09\/26\/national-punctuation-day-limerick\/\">mentioned previously,<\/a> where B-rhyme lines were provided.) <\/p>\n<p>No, I didn&#8217;t win anything or earn an honorable mention.  But I did write a limerick about losing:<\/p>\n<p>A Loser Of A Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A contest was held by the Post,<br \/>\nBut alas I&#8217;m unable to boast.<br \/>\nI submitted some verse &#8212;<br \/>\nDid not win, but won&#8217;t curse,<br \/>\nThough it seems that my entries are toast.<\/p>\n<p>(Here&#8217;s my post about a previous WP Style Invitational limerick contest, where I managed to score an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/09\/13\/poem-about-limerick-writing\/\">honorable mention.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all the Washington Post Style Invitational limerick contest winners! (This is the contest I mentioned previously, where B-rhyme lines were provided.) No, I didn&#8217;t win anything or earn an honorable mention. But I did write a limerick about losing: A Loser Of A Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane A contest was held by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,1343,42,69],"tags":[4950,1455,1454,1166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343"}],"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=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}