{"id":5131,"date":"2011-03-13T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T19:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2011-03-13T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T19:45:34","slug":"limerick-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/13\/limerick-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"An Upset Limerick (Limerick-Off Monday)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

But I’m trying something a bit different this time: One of your limericks will be anointed Limerick Of The Week<\/em>. How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, and cleverness. (If you’re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, here are two excellent resources: OEDILF on Writing A Limerick<\/a> and Speedy Snail’s Limerick Rhythm and Meter<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I’ll announce the Limerick of the Week<\/em> in next week’s Limerick-Off post. And that gives you a full week to submit your clever, polished verse. <\/p>\n

So I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:<\/p>\n

A fellow was very upset…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

or<\/p>\n

A woman was very upset…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s mine:<\/p>\n

Upset Limerick
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

A fellow was very upset.
\nHe was fretting and filled with regret.
\nHe’d followed a tip
\nTo invest in a ship,
\nThen discovered the tip was all wet.<\/p>\n

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 Facebook Limerick-Off post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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":"

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. But I’m trying something a bit different this time: One of your limericks will be anointed Limerick Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,104,352,42,8,103],"tags":[1971,5018,188,4973,1198,660,203],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-humor","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-money-humor","category-poetry-prompts","tag-investment-humor","tag-limerick-of-the-week","tag-money-verse","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-prize-winning-limericks","tag-ships","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","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=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5210,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}