{"id":9241,"date":"2011-09-21T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T21:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=9241"},"modified":"2011-09-22T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T21:31:58","slug":"facebook-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/09\/21\/facebook-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticked Off By Facebook&#8217;s Ticker (2 Limericks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to find something good to say about Facebook&#8217;s new News Feed, and here it is: It&#8217;s very inspirational!  Last night it inspired me to write <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/09\/21\/facebook-scrolling-feed-humor\/\">this dizzy limerick<\/a>.  And now I&#8217;ve written two more:<\/p>\n<p>If you like things that constantly flicker,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re sure to enjoy Facebook&#8217;s ticker.<br \/>\nAs for me, I must flee:<br \/>\nMy sore brain needs Chablis,<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;m off for some Advil and liquor.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>I am not one to bitch and to bicker,<br \/>\nBut I hate Facebook&#8217;s stupid new ticker.<br \/>\nIt makes my brain ache!<br \/>\nHow much more can I take?<br \/>\nEnough with the scrolling and flicker!<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>(Here&#8217;s a fun <a href=\"http:\/\/purpletreehouse.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/poetic-forms-wk-3-limerick-sept-21.html\">post about limericks<\/a>, where you can submit your own.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>  Good news!  I&#8217;ve found a solution to Facebook&#8217;s terrible News Ticker problem.  You can read all about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/09\/22\/facebook-ticker-chrome-extension\/\">here, including a celebratory limerick.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to find something good to say about Facebook&#8217;s new News Feed, and here it is: It&#8217;s very inspirational! Last night it inspired me to write this dizzy limerick. And now I&#8217;ve written two more: If you like things that constantly flicker, You&#8217;re sure to enjoy Facebook&#8217;s ticker. As for me, I must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81,15,757,41,42,22,1831,3],"tags":[388,389,533,1374,1175,2494,2493,2490,1179,1163,4903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241"}],"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=9241"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}