{"id":37330,"date":"2016-05-17T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=37330"},"modified":"2016-05-17T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:23:44","slug":"twitter-humor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2016\/05\/17\/twitter-humor-3\/","title":{"rendered":"My Modest Twitter Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s scuttlebutt afoot that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-05-16\/twitter-to-stop-counting-photos-and-links-in-140-character-limit\">Twitter&#8217;s 140 character limit may soon be improved,<\/a> ever so slightly. The idea, apparently, isn&#8217;t to up the limit, but to stop counting link and photo characters in calculating usage.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to that rumored improvement.  But in the meantime, here&#8217;s my modest proposal: <\/p>\n<p>How &#8217;bout this for a Tweet-poet&#8217;s aid:<br \/>\nWhen you write something short, why not trade<br \/>\nUnused character credits<br \/>\nOr save them, I&#8217;ll bet it&#8217;s<br \/>\nA hit when o&#8217;er limits you&#8217;ve strayed.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you&#8217;ve written haiku<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;ve room for more words &#8212; just a few.<br \/>\nThat space you&#8217;ve not used<br \/>\nCould be stored and then fused<br \/>\nOn a tweet with a limerick spew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s scuttlebutt afoot that Twitter&#8217;s 140 character limit may soon be improved, ever so slightly. The idea, apparently, isn&#8217;t to up the limit, but to stop counting link and photo characters in calculating usage. I look forward to that rumored improvement. But in the meantime, here&#8217;s my modest proposal: How &#8217;bout this for a Tweet-poet&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1831,237],"tags":[4393,1179,4989,1176],"class_list":["post-37330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-limericks","category-social-media-humor","category-twitter-humor","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-poetry","tag-twitter-humor","tag-twitter-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37330","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=37330"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37343,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37330\/revisions\/37343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}