{"id":4737,"date":"2011-02-24T19:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2011-02-27T01:51:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:51:56","slug":"vellicate-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/02\/24\/vellicate-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Itching To Write A Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I  heard that the February 27th prompt over at <a href=\"http:\/\/onesingleimpression.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/prompt-157-vellicate.html\">One Single Impression<\/a> is <em>vellicate<\/em>, I knew I was in trouble.  Why? Cuz I had no idea what it meant and how it&#8217;s pronounced.  And even after I&#8217;d Googled the damn word, it still didn&#8217;t feel assimilated. Plus it just didn&#8217;t tickle my funny bone. <\/p>\n<p>But though I was irritated by its unfamiliarity, I was itching to write a limerick.  So here it is:<\/p>\n<p>Itching To Write A Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Often poetry prompts can enrich.<br \/>\nBut they sometimes can be quite a bitch.<br \/>\nSunday&#8217;s <em>vellicate<\/em> prompt<br \/>\nOn my brain cells has stomped.<br \/>\nThe mere thought of that word makes me twitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that the February 27th prompt over at One Single Impression is vellicate, I knew I was in trouble. Why? Cuz I had no idea what it meant and how it&#8217;s pronounced. And even after I&#8217;d Googled the damn word, it still didn&#8217;t feel assimilated. Plus it just didn&#8217;t tickle my funny bone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1343,42,103,52,69],"tags":[236,1844,4973,1866,1843,203],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity-verse","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","category-wordplay","category-writing-humor","tag-creativity","tag-one-single-impression","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-word-play-humor","tag-writers-block","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","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=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}