{"id":6701,"date":"2011-05-15T00:56:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T04:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2011-05-15T01:11:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T05:11:48","slug":"hatching-plot-limerick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/05\/15\/hatching-plot-limerick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Plot (Limerick-Off Monday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Limerick-Off time, once again. 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=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/172059019518288\">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\/05\/15\/limerick-of-the-week-9\/\">last week\u2019s Limerick Of The Week Winner<\/a> plus the 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 fellow was hatching a plot&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman was hatching a plot&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s mine:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Plot<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A fellow was hatching a plot<br \/>\nTo kidnap a rich fam&#8217;ly&#8217;s tot.<br \/>\nBut the germ-fearing man<br \/>\nAbandoned his plan.<br \/>\nSeems the youngster was rescued by snot.<\/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 on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/172059019518288\">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>It\u2019s Limerick-Off time, once again. 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":[],"categories":[49,62,48,104,65,352,42,103],"tags":[2295,349,2294,2292,2293,4973,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701"}],"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=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}