{"id":335,"date":"2008-07-29T16:59:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T20:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/07\/29\/gray-matters-limerick\/"},"modified":"2011-08-17T03:36:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T07:36:16","slug":"gray-matters-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/07\/29\/gray-matters-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Matters (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please stay tuned for a\u00a0big announcement, which\u00a0is coming in the next day or so.\u00a0 But in the meantime, I&#8217;ve been prompted to write about <a href=\"http:\/\/mercedesrocks.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/28\/hump-day-humor-week-23\/\">getting older.<\/a>\u00a0 So here&#8217;s my Gray Matters limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Gray Matters<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Though young when I started to gray,<br \/>\nI refused to say, &#8220;Gray, go away!&#8221;<br \/>\nIn the decades gone by<br \/>\nI have never used dye.<br \/>\nMess with nature?\u00a0 My answer is &#8220;Nay!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nMy best wishes to LA&#8217;ers who&#8217;ve been through an earthquake today.\u00a0Fortunately, so far at least, the damage hasn&#8217;t been bad.\u00a0 I still have vivid memories of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/04\/18\/ode-to-an-earthquake\/\">the really scary 1971 LA earthquake<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please stay tuned for a\u00a0big announcement, which\u00a0is coming in the next day or so.\u00a0 But in the meantime, I&#8217;ve been prompted to write about getting older.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s my Gray Matters limerick: Gray Matters By Madeleine Begun Kane Though young when I started to gray, I refused to say, &#8220;Gray, go away!&#8221; In the decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,42,68],"tags":[568,569,567,570],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-humor","category-limericks","category-physical-appearance","tag-aging-limerick","tag-getting-older-verse","tag-gray-hair","tag-hair-dye-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8539,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/8539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}