{"id":8030,"date":"2011-07-10T03:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T07:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2011-07-10T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T18:44:54","slug":"fair-limerick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/07\/10\/fair-limerick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair 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\/240045686015404\">on Facebook too.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here\u2019s last week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/07\/10\/limerick-of-the-week-17\/\">Limerick Of The Week Winner<\/a> plus the Honorable Mentions.)<\/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>A gal who was lovely and fair&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s mine:<\/p>\n<p>Fair Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A gal who was lovely and fair<br \/>\nHad a spouse who&#8217;d gone heaven knows where.<br \/>\nShe suspected foul play.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the victim, I&#8217;d say:<br \/>\nAn affair in his lair caused her scare.<\/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 my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/240045686015404\">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":[],"categories":[11,62,48,104,65,352,42,2,103,16],"tags":[1711,4909,1710,349,2400,382,2401,1027,4902,4973,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030"}],"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=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8088,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions\/8088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}