{"id":4647,"date":"2011-02-21T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=4647"},"modified":"2011-02-24T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T06:28:13","slug":"writing-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/02\/21\/writing-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Writerly Verse (Limerick-Off Monday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, it\u2019s Limerick-Off time. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you\u2019re a Facebook user, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/190460674320555\">Facebook too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman was trying to write. &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow was trying to write. &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s mine. (It\u2019s a three-verse limerick, but a standard one-verse limerick is fine, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>Writerly Verse<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A woman was trying to write.<br \/>\nEv&#8217;ry sentence and phrase was a fight.<br \/>\nShe hated each line.<br \/>\nToo much whine. (Too much wine?)<br \/>\nAnd decided to call it a night.<\/p>\n<p>She started again the next day.<br \/>\nBut her muse seemed to be on delay.<br \/>\nSo she showered and walked.<br \/>\nInspiration still balked.<br \/>\nThough agnostic, she started to pray.<\/p>\n<p>She returned to her screen with a curse.<br \/>\nStarted typing for better or worse.<br \/>\nTried to block her left brain,<br \/>\nOr her right, or the twain.<br \/>\nThen punched keys till at last she found verse.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you\u2019re on Facebook, I hope you\u2019ll join my friends in that same activity in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/190460674320555\">Facebook Limerick-Off post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please send me an email requesting the alerts. You\u2019ll find my email address on the upper right sidebar, in the \u201cAuthor\u201d section just below my Limerick-Offs button. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, it\u2019s Limerick-Off time. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you\u2019re a Facebook user, on Facebook too. So I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line: A woman was trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104,352,42,103,69],"tags":[236,1734,1796,4973,1843,1166,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647"}],"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=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}