Dear Calendar (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
Dear calendar, why are you lying?
\nYou claim that it’s spring. I’m not buying.
\nWe had one lovely day,
\nBut now snow’s on the way.
\nYou’ve betrayed us — there’s no use denying.<\/p>\n
(Inspired by this spring prompt<\/a> and, of course, the damn New York City weather. Posted also at Write A Letter<\/em><\/a>, Jingle Poetry’s<\/em> deception and misrepresentation<\/a> prompt, and at Poetic Asides<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Calendar (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Dear calendar, why are you lying? You claim that it’s spring. I’m not buying. We had one lovely day, But now snow’s on the way. You’ve betrayed us — there’s no use denying. (Inspired by this spring prompt and, of course, the damn New York City weather. Posted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2017,118,42,73,58,59],"tags":[1836,2019,1725,861,716,279,671,4947,573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470"}],"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=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}