{"id":6093,"date":"2011-04-08T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T19:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2019-07-23T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T23:02:25","slug":"insect-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/04\/08\/insect-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Itching For Another Acrostic Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/04\/07\/elope-acrostic-limerick\/\">fun foray into acrostic limericks<\/a>, I just had to try another:<\/p>\n<p>Itching For Another Acrostic Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Bemoaning her red, itchy bites,<br \/>\nUndone by her sleep-deprived nights,<br \/>\nGabrielle said, &#8220;No more!<br \/>\nGoing out to the store.<br \/>\nYou mosquitoes have earned your last rites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(More <a href=\"http:\/\/missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/monday-poetry-stretch-going-buggy.html\">bug related poems here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Update: A case of insect revenge?  Right after posting this, I noticed that my left foot was itchy and discovered my first mosquito bite of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> August 20 is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Mosquito_Day\">World Mosquito Day.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my first fun foray into acrostic limericks, I just had to try another: Itching For Another Acrostic Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane Bemoaning her red, itchy bites, Undone by her sleep-deprived nights, Gabrielle said, &#8220;No more! Going out to the store. You mosquitoes have earned your last rites.&#8221; (More bug related poems here.) Update: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2212,23,76,1765,42,1524,55],"tags":[2214,3177,582,1338,583,5012,4562],"class_list":["post-6093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrostic-limericks","category-health-humor","category-insect-humor","category-light-verse","category-limericks","category-odd-holidays","category-sleep-humor","tag-acrostic-poems","tag-august-holidays","tag-bug-limerick","tag-insect-and-bug-humor","tag-insect-bites","tag-odd-holidays","tag-world-mosquito-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093","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=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41993,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions\/41993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}