{"id":5030,"date":"2011-03-08T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2011-03-10T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T09:08:12","slug":"space-station-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/08\/space-station-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick In Free-Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely write poems about science.  But <a href=\"http:\/\/bigtentpoetry.org\/2011\/03\/monday-prompt-march-7\/\">Big Tent Poetry<\/a> got my juices flowing with this article about astronauts, NASA, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/mar\/03\/international-space-station\">clutter at the International Space Station<\/a>:  Here&#8217;s the line that got me going: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no up or down in space, so clutter adorns almost every surface and is held in place by duct tape, Velcro and metal clips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick In Free-Fall<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Space Station clutter&#8217;s appalling.<br \/>\nObjects long to engage in free-falling.<br \/>\nIt take Velcro, clips, tape<br \/>\nTo prevent their escape:<br \/>\nMy hubby&#8217;s fav tools &#8212; missed his calling.<\/p>\n<p>(More <a href=\"http:\/\/themethursday.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/thursday-march-10-2011-space.html\">space<\/a> verse here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely write poems about science. But Big Tent Poetry got my juices flowing with this article about astronauts, NASA, and clutter at the International Space Station: Here&#8217;s the line that got me going: There is no up or down in space, so clutter adorns almost every surface and is held in place by duct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,42,2,44],"tags":[1953,1641,1949,1946,1950,1947,382,589,1952,4936,1945,1951],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-home-humor","category-limericks","category-marriage-humor","category-science-humor","tag-astronauts","tag-astronomy-verse","tag-big-tent-poetry","tag-clutter-humor","tag-duct-tape","tag-household-tools","tag-husband-wife-limerick","tag-marriage-verse","tag-nasa","tag-science-humor","tag-space-station","tag-velcro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030","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=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5098,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions\/5098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}