{"id":5526,"date":"2011-03-25T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2018-04-21T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T19:03:56","slug":"law-haiku-tanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/25\/law-haiku-tanka\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Haiku, Legal Haiku, And Tanka Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excited tourists
\nstop and stare, awed by Times Square —
\nforget they have feet.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Sleepless, hollow eyes
\ngaze at legal opinions,
\nbut see student loans.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Windy documents
\nwritten to persuade judges —
\nendless legal briefs.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Libraries, once hushed,
\nquiet playgrounds of the mind,
\nkept calm and silent
\nby strict ground rules, now drown thought
\nin playground cacophony.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

(Thanks for these four prompts: New York<\/a>, hollow<\/a>, paradox<\/a>, and hush<\/a>. Posted at Monday Memories<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Update: April 21st is Thank You For Libraries Day<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excited tourists stop and stare, awed by Times Square — forget they have feet. ***** Sleepless, hollow eyes gaze at legal opinions, but see student loans. ***** Windy documents written to persuade judges — endless legal briefs. ***** Libraries, once hushed, quiet playgrounds of the mind, kept calm and silent by strict ground rules, now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,99,10,8,73,1524],"tags":[2090,2053,215,2052,668,2051,2055,2056,2057,504,5011,5012,2058,2050,5146,2064],"class_list":["post-5526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety-stress","category-haiku","category-legal-humor","category-money-humor","category-new-york-limericks","category-odd-holidays","tag-april-holidays","tag-briefs-humor","tag-haiku-senryu","tag-law-haiku","tag-legal-jargon","tag-legal-opinions","tag-legal-research","tag-legal-writing","tag-library-poetry","tag-new-york-city-verse","tag-noise-humor","tag-odd-holidays","tag-paradoxes","tag-student-loans","tag-thank-you-for-libraries-day","tag-times-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526","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=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40311,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions\/40311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}