{"id":8287,"date":"2011-07-31T01:19:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T05:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=8287"},"modified":"2011-08-01T03:43:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T07:43:36","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/07\/31\/limerick-of-the-week-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (20)"},"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\/07\/24\/thrilling-limerick-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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writing.com\/main\/handler\/item_id\/986307-Linericks\">David McCormick a\/k\/a AdamantYves<\/a> who wins Limerick of the Week for this funny verse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow who loved a great thrill<br \/>\nEach day took a little blue pill.<br \/>\nThough he rose to the part<br \/>\n\u2018Twas too much for his heart,<br \/>\nAnd we can\u2019t get his casket closed still.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) Ste Earp, Scott Crowder, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/oddly-enough\/\">Robert Basler<\/a>,  and Johanna Richmond. Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n<p>Ste Earp:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow who loved a good thrill<br \/>\nAttempted to ice skate uphill<br \/>\nNow with both ankles broken<br \/>\nInsurers have spoken<br \/>\nConfirming they won\u2019t foot the bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scott Crowder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow who loved a good thrill<br \/>\nGot naked to cook on his grill.<br \/>\nHis ribs got well roasted,<br \/>\nHis buns nicely toasted,<br \/>\nAnd his weenie has marks on it still.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Basler: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow who loved a good thrill<br \/>\nWent touring with Buffalo Bill.<br \/>\nHe argued quite vocally<br \/>\nWith young Annie Oakley.<br \/>\nYou can find him up there on Boot Hill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Johanna Richmond:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow who loved a good thrill<br \/>\nPut his faith in a little blue pill.<br \/>\nSo it came as a blow<br \/>\nWhen he found out there\u2019s no<br \/>\nPharmaceutical stand-in for skill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations again to all the winners for your clever 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\/07\/31\/love-smitten-limerick-off-monday\/\"> 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 David McCormick a\/k\/a AdamantYves who wins Limerick of the Week for this funny verse: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,84,1983,42],"tags":[2425,2065,5018,2280,2223,2418,487,523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287"}],"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=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8332,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions\/8332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}