{"id":6953,"date":"2011-05-16T19:06:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T23:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=6953"},"modified":"2013-11-26T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T21:01:13","slug":"oxymoronic-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/05\/16\/oxymoronic-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasty Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always looking for fun ways to jumpstart my muse.  A new favorite is this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingfix.com\/right_brain\/Serendipitous_Oxymorons1.htm\">Serendipitous Oxymoron writing prompt generator<\/a> over at the <em>Writing Fix<\/em>.  Just a couple of clicks can pair you up with an amusing or thought-provoking oxymoron.  For instance, today it gave me &#8220;Tasty Tragedy,&#8221; which inspired this limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Tasty Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The baker delivered his cake,<br \/>\nAs the bride yelled, &#8220;I&#8217;ve made a mistake!&#8221;<br \/>\nShe canceled her vows.<br \/>\nBut that cake sure got wows,<br \/>\nAs the wedding turned into a wake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> November 26th is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/national-cake-day-13\/\">National Cake Day<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always looking for fun ways to jumpstart my muse. A new favorite is this Serendipitous Oxymoron writing prompt generator over at the Writing Fix. Just a couple of clicks can pair you up with an amusing or thought-provoking oxymoron. For instance, today it gave me &#8220;Tasty Tragedy,&#8221; which inspired this limerick: Tasty Limerick By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81,77,41,42,2,1524,2315],"tags":[1897,1289,2217,2313,328,3938,2093,5012,2311,2312,912,2314,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953"}],"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=6953"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23547,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions\/23547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}