{"id":5118,"date":"2011-03-14T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T20:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2011-03-16T03:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T07:54:04","slug":"writers-block-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/14\/writers-block-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Humor Isn&#8217;t Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We Write Poems<\/em> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/wewritepoems.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/16\/prompt-45-its-post-your-poems-day\/\"><em>against the grain prompt<\/em><\/a> which asks how (or if) we manage to write when we just aren&#8217;t feeling creative. My three-verse limerick explains all &#8230; sort of:<\/p>\n<p>To write humor when not in the mood<br \/>\nTakes a major adjustment of &#8216;tude.<br \/>\nIf I&#8217;m still uninspired,<br \/>\nI tell me, &#8220;You&#8217;re fired,&#8221;<br \/>\nOr pretend I&#8217;m about to be sued.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, none of this stuff&#8217;s really true.<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m blocked, I don&#8217;t know what to do.<br \/>\nSo I shower or walk,<br \/>\nRead the news, turn on talk,<br \/>\nAbsorb info, inviting a cue.<\/p>\n<p>At long last something starts to take hold,<br \/>\nAnd a concept begins to unfold,<br \/>\nAs I play with the news<br \/>\nWhich teases my muse<br \/>\nIn my quest for some comedy gold.<\/p>\n<p>(You can find more of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/02\/21\/writing-limerick\/\">writers block humor here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Write Poems has an against the grain prompt which asks how (or if) we manage to write when we just aren&#8217;t feeling creative. My three-verse limerick explains all &#8230; sort of: To write humor when not in the mood Takes a major adjustment of &#8216;tude. If I&#8217;m still uninspired, I tell me, &#8220;You&#8217;re fired,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1343,42,69],"tags":[1070,236,1989,1796,1864,1843,1166],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity-verse","category-limericks","category-writing-humor","tag-comedy-limerick","tag-creativity","tag-humor-writing","tag-muse","tag-we-write-poems","tag-writers-block","tag-writing-publishing-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","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=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5317,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/5317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}