{"id":48646,"date":"2024-12-29T15:05:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T19:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=48646"},"modified":"2024-12-29T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T19:05:32","slug":"orchestra-tour-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2024\/12\/29\/orchestra-tour-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Tour Blues (Limerick and Haiku)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Poetry prompts are big on Bluesky. And one of them (the word &#8220;tour&#8221;) inspired me to write about something I&#8217;ve never written about before: touring with the Dallas Symphony way back in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here&#8217;s both a limerick and a haiku about that experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Just imagine an orchestra tour<br \/>Via a bus. It was tough to endure:<br \/>Two long months on the road,<br \/>Bad hotels, our abode&#8230;<br \/>And no Net, so for boredom, no cure!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Traveled via bus<br \/>on 2-month orchestra tour&#8211;<br \/>Played oboe \u2026 and chess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry prompts are big on Bluesky. And one of them (the word &#8220;tour&#8221;) inspired me to write about something I&#8217;ve never written about before: touring with the Dallas Symphony way back in 1970. So here&#8217;s both a limerick and a haiku about that experience. Just imagine an orchestra tourVia a bus. It was tough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,99,74,104,42,24,2991,3702,6],"tags":[6982,301,6641,1263,319,2781,1076,3105,6981,6980,4905,1588],"class_list":["post-48646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-humor","category-haiku","category-internet-humor","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limericks","category-music-humor","category-music-poems","category-transportation-humor","category-travel-humor","tag-dallas-symphony","tag-music-haiku","tag-music-humor-2","tag-music-humor-verse","tag-music-limerick","tag-musician-humor","tag-oboe-humor","tag-oboe-limerick","tag-orchestra-tours","tag-tour-bus","tag-travel-humor","tag-travel-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48646","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=48646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48648,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48646\/revisions\/48648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}