{"id":5577,"date":"2011-03-27T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:07:14","slug":"shyness-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/27\/shyness-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Shy Limerick (Limerick-Off Monday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/174477865935851\">Facebook too.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/27\/limerick-of-the-week-2\/\">last week\u2019s Limerick Of The Week Winner<\/a> plus three Honorable Mentions.)<\/p>\n<p>How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, and cleverness. (If you\u2019re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, here are two excellent resources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oedilf.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Writing_a_Limerick\">OEDILF on Writing A Limerick<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/speedysnail.com\/limericks\/metre.html\">Speedy Snail\u2019s Limerick Rhythm and Meter<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll announce the Limerick of the Week Winner right before I post next week\u2019s Limerick-Off. So that gives you a full week to submit your clever, polished verse.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A gal who was painfully shy\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who was painfully shy\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s mine:<\/p>\n<p>Shy Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A gal who was painfully shy<br \/>\nHad a crush on a very cute guy.<br \/>\nWhen she fin&#8217;lly let on,<br \/>\nHe was rude &#8212; said &#8220;Begone!&#8221;<br \/>\nYou want fairy tale endings here? Why?<\/p>\n<p>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<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/174477865935851\"> Facebook Limerick-Off post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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":"<p>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. The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here\u2019s last week\u2019s Limerick Of The Week Winner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,49,54,62,104,65,352,42,103,16,110],"tags":[4909,2045,4973,4976,1632,2044,203],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-of-the-sexes","category-behavior-personality","category-communication-humor","category-contests","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","category-relationship-humor","category-romance-humor","tag-battle-of-the-sexes","tag-fairy-tales","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-romance-humor","tag-shyness","tag-timid-humor","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","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=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5729,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}