{"id":8475,"date":"2011-08-14T00:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T04:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=8475"},"modified":"2011-08-14T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T18:10:53","slug":"game-limerick-off-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/08\/14\/game-limerick-off-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 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\/206410622750578\">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\/08\/14\/limerick-of-the-week-22\/\">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 woman who always seemed game&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow who always seemed game&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s mine:<\/p>\n<p>Game Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A woman who always seemed game<br \/>\nTo attempt any venture you&#8217;d name<br \/>\nResisted just one:<br \/>\nFrench kissing a nun.<br \/>\nHer excuse? &#8220;I can&#8217;t kiss an old flame.&#8221;<\/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\/206410622750578\">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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,104,65,352,42,103,127],"tags":[2444,2411,2446,2445,4973,1654,203],"class_list":["post-8475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","category-religion-verse","tag-adventures-limerick","tag-bawdy-humor","tag-french-kissing","tag-nuns","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-religion-humor","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475","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=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}