Healthy Complaint (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
Dark choc’late, caffeine, and red wine
\nMight harm us, or may be just fine.
\nEv’ry news item muddies
\nMy mind with new studies.
\nPlease make up your mind: What’s benign?<\/p>\n
(Prompted by We Write Poems<\/a>, which encouraged poets to use two prompts at once. I used health<\/a> and chocolate<\/a>.)<\/p>\n You might also enjoy my Are Health Studies Making Us Sick?<\/a> and Margarine Is Good For You. Oops — Never Mind!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Healthy Complaint (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Dark choc’late, caffeine, and red wine Might harm us, or may be just fine. Ev’ry news item muddies My mind with new studies. Please make up your mind: What’s benign? (Prompted by We Write Poems, which encouraged poets to use two prompts at once. I used health and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,23,122],"tags":[546,2340,1810,328,1691,2364,913],"class_list":["post-7649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink-humor","category-health-humor","category-health-verse","tag-caffeine-humor","tag-chocolate-poem","tag-diet-humor","tag-food-verse","tag-health-medical-humor","tag-health-studies","tag-wine-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649","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=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7664,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}