{"id":6825,"date":"2011-05-10T15:17:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=6825"},"modified":"2012-05-12T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T19:07:08","slug":"happy-limerick-day-may-12th-acrostic-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/05\/10\/happy-limerick-day-may-12th-acrostic-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Limerick Day &#8212; May 12th (Acrostic Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I like to celebrate Limerick Day (May 12) by writing a limerick in honor of Edward Lear,  the father of the limerick.  (Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/05\/10\/edward-lear-limerick\/\">two limericks I wrote in Lear&#8217;s honor<\/a> last year.)<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve recently gotten into writing acrostic limericks, I decided to make things about bit harder on myself and write an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/category\/acrostic-limericks\/\">acrostic limerick<\/a> to celebrate Limerick Day (and Lear&#8217;s birthday.)<\/p>\n<p>Happy Limerick Day (Acrostic Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p><strong>E<\/strong>dward Lear should be honored &#8212; hooray!<br \/>\n<strong>L<\/strong>im&#8217;rick verses he fathered, some say.<br \/>\n<strong>E<\/strong>ntertained us with wit&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong>A<\/strong> nonsensical hit.<br \/>\n<strong>R<\/strong>emember his birthday &#8212; 12 May.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to celebrate National Limerick Day, why not try participating in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/05\/08\/musician-limerick\/\">this week&#8217;s Limerick-Off?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I like to celebrate Limerick Day (May 12) by writing a limerick in honor of Edward Lear, the father of the limerick. (Here are the two limericks I wrote in Lear&#8217;s honor last year.) Since I&#8217;ve recently gotten into writing acrostic limericks, I decided to make things about bit harder on myself and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2212,178,940,77,33,1765,42,69],"tags":[2214,4957,1313,2097,2287,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825"}],"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=6825"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13578,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions\/13578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}