{"id":8850,"date":"2011-11-20T02:09:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T06:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2011-11-20T03:39:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:39:57","slug":"edible-limerick-limerick-off-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/11\/20\/edible-limerick-limerick-off-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Edible Limerick (Limerick-Off Monday)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here\u2019s last week\u2019s Limerick Of The Week Winner plus the Honorable Mentions.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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 helpful resources listed here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:<\/p>\n

A man was attempting to eat…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

or<\/p>\n

A gal was attempting to eat…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s mine, which I hope doesn’t describe your Thanksgiving dinner:<\/p>\n

Edible Limerick
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

A man was attempting to eat
\nWhen he spotted a mouse near his seat.
\nSo he smashed down his foot,
\nAnd the mouse went kaput,
\nAs his kid cried, “You killed little Pete!”<\/p>\n

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 Facebook Limerick-Off post.<\/a><\/p>\n

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":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,40,62,41,33,104,65,352,42,103,64,16],"tags":[2295,412,328,2544,5008,994,4973,721,203],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-humor","category-children-humor","category-contests","category-food-drink-humor","category-holiday-humor","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","category-poetry-contest","category-relationship-humor","tag-children-limerick","tag-food-humor","tag-food-verse","tag-mice-humor","tag-parenting-humor","tag-pets-verse","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-thanksgiving","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","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=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10062,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/10062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}