{"id":41832,"date":"2019-07-31T18:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=41832"},"modified":"2019-07-31T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:17:04","slug":"odd-musical-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2019\/07\/31\/odd-musical-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Limericks For Uncommon Musical Instrument Awareness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since July 31st is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/holidays\/fun\/uncommon-musical-instrument-day\">&#8220;Uncommon Musical Instrument Awareness Day,&#8221;<\/a> here&#8217;s a pair of limericks about archaic instruments:<\/p>\n<p>A foolish, though musical fellow<br \/>\nPlayed bassoon, oboe, sax &#8212; even cello.<br \/>\nBut auditions were few.<br \/>\nCompetition? A slew!<br \/>\nSo he learned the pass\u00e9 bassanello.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>A harpist was playing her chrotta<br \/>\nAt a sporting event &#8212; a regatta.<br \/>\nShe performed rather well,<br \/>\nBut the gig went to hell<br \/>\nWhen a harpy (non-fan) threw frittata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since July 31st is &#8220;Uncommon Musical Instrument Awareness Day,&#8221; here&#8217;s a pair of limericks about archaic instruments: A foolish, though musical fellow Played bassoon, oboe, sax &#8212; even cello. But auditions were few. Competition? A slew! So he learned the pass\u00e9 bassanello. ***** A harpist was playing her chrotta At a sporting event &#8212; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,24,2991,1524],"tags":[2099,1263,5313,1080,1133,5012,5312],"class_list":["post-41832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-limericks","category-music-humor","category-music-poems","category-odd-holidays","tag-july-holidays","tag-music-humor-verse","tag-music-limericks","tag-musical-instruments","tag-musical-instruments-humor","tag-odd-holidays","tag-uncommon-musical-instrument-awareness-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41832","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=41832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42037,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41832\/revisions\/42037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}