{"id":7404,"date":"2011-06-05T01:34:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T05:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2011-06-05T14:55:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T18:55:46","slug":"gourmet-limerick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/06\/05\/gourmet-limerick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Gourmet Limerick (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, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/228700070489130\">on 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\/06\/05\/limerick-of-the-week-12\/\">last week\u2019s Limerick Of The Week Winner plus the Honorable Mentions<\/a>.)<\/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, you can find some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/limerick-and-haiku-seeds-and-prompts\/\">helpful resources listed here.<\/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>\nA fellow who loved fine cuisine&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman who loved fine cuisine&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s mine:<\/p>\n<p>Gourmet Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A fellow who loved fine cuisine<br \/>\nThought non-gourmet dining obscene.<br \/>\nBut he <em>could<\/em> not afford<br \/>\nThe food he adored,<br \/>\nWhich explains why that guy was so lean.<\/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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/228700070489130\">my 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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,41,104,65,352,42,103],"tags":[621,1541,328,2349,4973,203],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-food-drink-humor","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","tag-dining-humor","tag-eating-limerick","tag-food-verse","tag-gourmet-humor","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","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=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}