{"id":3974,"date":"2010-12-27T19:06:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T23:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2010-12-27T19:06:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T23:06:50","slug":"greedy-limerick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/12\/27\/greedy-limerick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/12\/15\/nude-sun-bathing-humor\/\">mentioned previously<\/a>, my pal Patrick McGuire runs a <a href=\"http:\/\/mcguirehimself.com\/?tag=unfinished-limerick-contest\">weekly Unfinished Limerick Contest<\/a>.  The latest finished oddly, as explained in this &#8230; uh &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/mcguirehimself.com\/?p=3100\">press release<\/a>.  And I&#8217;m proud to say I garnered an Honorable Mention, despite having broken just about all of the contest&#8217;s rules.   How did I pull off this feat?  You&#8217;ll just have to read <a href=\"http:\/\/mcguirehimself.com\/?p=3100\">Patrick&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my entry:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Greed<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Tis the season to make lots of cash<br \/>\nFor business, for God. Got a stash?<br \/>\nYes, ain&#8217;t it ironic<br \/>\nThat greed is so chronic?<br \/>\nWe worship the gods of mall trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned previously, my pal Patrick McGuire runs a weekly Unfinished Limerick Contest. The latest finished oddly, as explained in this &#8230; uh &#8230; press release. And I&#8217;m proud to say I garnered an Honorable Mention, despite having broken just about all of the contest&#8217;s rules. How did I pull off this feat? You&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,33,65,42,8,45],"tags":[1209,1183,1676,5009,1675,172,1618,1654,4937],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-humor","category-holiday-humor","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limericks","category-money-humor","category-shopping-humor","tag-business-verse","tag-greed-humor","tag-holiday-shoppers","tag-limerick-contest","tag-malls","tag-money-poems","tag-patrick-mcguire","tag-religion-humor","tag-shopping-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","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=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}