{"id":7730,"date":"2011-06-19T19:05:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T23:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2011-06-20T00:53:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T04:53:29","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/06\/19\/limerick-of-the-week-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to announce the latest Limerick of the Week based on submissions (on this blog and on Facebook) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/06\/12\/clout-limerick-off-monday\/\">last week&#8217;s Limerick-Off.<\/a>  I&#8217;m very pleased to announce the winning Limerick of the Week and the Honorable Mentions:<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to SCOTT CROWDER who wins Limerick of the Week for this very clever verse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A gal who was proud of her clout,<br \/>\nWhen fondled would shudder and shout.<br \/>\nAnd she learned by and by,<br \/>\nIt is spelled with an I.<br \/>\nThe O and the U are left out.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) <a href=\"http:\/\/bniedt.blogspot.com\/\">Bruce Niedt<\/a> and Ira Bloom.   Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Niedt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who was proud of his clout<br \/>\nBrought a bat to the plate, big and stout.<br \/>\nQuite a menacing guy,<br \/>\nWhen the pitcher let fly&#8212;<br \/>\nBut whaddya know, he struck out.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ira Bloom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who was proud of his clout<br \/>\nNonetheless was consumed by self-doubt<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause his aids quit en masse<br \/>\nClaiming &#8220;Newt, you&#8217;re an ass.&#8221;<br \/>\nAll in all, he had little to tout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations again to all the winners for your wonderful limericks. And thanks to everyone for your fun submissions.<\/p>\n<p>In the next couple of minutes I\u2019ll be posting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/06\/19\/generosity-limerick\/\">new Limerick-Off<\/a>, which gives you yet another opportunity to win Limerick Of The Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to announce the latest Limerick of the Week based on submissions (on this blog and on Facebook) in last week&#8217;s Limerick-Off. I&#8217;m very pleased to announce the winning Limerick of the Week and the Honorable Mentions: Congratulations to SCOTT CROWDER who wins Limerick of the Week for this very clever verse: A gal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,84,1983,42],"tags":[2374,2373,5018,2223,487,523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730"}],"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=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7793,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}