{"id":8724,"date":"2011-08-27T03:22:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T07:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2011-08-27T03:24:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T07:24:29","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/08\/27\/limerick-of-the-week-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (24)"},"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\/08\/21\/bragging-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 clever verse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow who tended to brag<br \/>\nBlustered, \u201cSki slalom Gold? In the bag!\u201d<br \/>\nBut he met a sad fate<br \/>\nWhen, at the last gate,<br \/>\nHe zigged when he needed to zag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) Johanna Richmond, <a href=\"http:\/\/1ightverse.blogspot.com\/\">RJ Clarken<\/a>, and Jane Shelton Hoffman. Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n<p>Johanna Richmond:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman who tended to brag<br \/>\nHoped her bra hid her sizable sag,<br \/>\nBut the long straps and clips<br \/>\nShe hooked up to her hips<br \/>\nBobbed her boobs with each derriere wag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RJ Clarken:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman who tended to brag<br \/>\nAll about her \u2018Kate Spade\u2019 shoulder bag<br \/>\nDiscovered \u2026 a fraud!<br \/>\nYes, she saw it was flawed:<br \/>\nThe name was misspelled on the tag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jane Shelton Hoffman: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman who tended to brag<br \/>\nSaid she&#8217;d been in a bachelor mag<br \/>\nAs not only the cover,<br \/>\nBut Most Wanted Lover,<br \/>\nEven though she was starting to sag.<\/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\/08\/27\/exploitation-humor-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 clever verse: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,84,1983,42],"tags":[2425,2281,2065,5018,2405,487,523],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-limerick-award-winners","category-limerick-of-the-week","category-limericks","tag-david-mccormick","tag-jane-shelton-hoffman","tag-johanna-richmond","tag-limerick-of-the-week","tag-rj-clarken","tag-writing-competitions","tag-writing-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","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=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8779,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions\/8779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}