{"id":675,"date":"2009-06-09T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T05:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2009-06-09T04:04:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T08:04:55","slug":"luddite-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/06\/09\/luddite-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Luddite Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luddite Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A hard-working author named Fink<br \/>\nInsisted on writing with ink.<br \/>\nHe hated computers<br \/>\nAnd called them polluters.<br \/>\nSome claim he&#8217;s our long Missing Link.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, in addition to being a recovering lawyer, I&#8217;m a recovering luddite and recovering technophobe.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0 the first anthology my essays ever appeared in was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Minutes-Lead-Pencil-Club-Electronic\/dp\/0916366847\">Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Second Thoughts on the Electronic Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments.  And if you\u2019re on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Madeleine-Begun-Kane\/540784314\">Facebook,<\/a> please join my friends in that same activity in my limerick-offs.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luddite Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane A hard-working author named Fink Insisted on writing with ink. He hated computers And called them polluters. Some claim he&#8217;s our long Missing Link. By the way, in addition to being a recovering lawyer, I&#8217;m a recovering luddite and recovering technophobe.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0 the first anthology my essays ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176,15,352,42,103,3,69],"tags":[4988,224,401,4934,399,400,225,184,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}