{"id":9563,"date":"2011-10-16T01:35:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T05:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=9563"},"modified":"2016-04-23T15:44:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T19:44:22","slug":"take-a-shot-at-limerick-off-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/10\/16\/take-a-shot-at-limerick-off-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Take A Shot At Limericks (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, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/252839208096071\">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\/10\/16\/limerick-of-the-week-31\/\">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>A fellow who&#8217;d taken a shot&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman who&#8217;d taken a shot&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s mine:<\/p>\n<p>Take A Shot At Limericks<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A fellow who&#8217;d taken a shot<br \/>\nAt a gal, once his lover, now not,<br \/>\nMissed her heart, hit her arm<br \/>\nAnd still did her great harm.<br \/>\nNow he sleeps on an old jailhouse cot.<\/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=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/252839208096071\">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<p>UPDATE: April 23 is <a href=\"http:\/\/holidayinsights.com\/moreholidays\/April\/loversday.htm\">Lover&#8217;s Day<\/a><\/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":[],"categories":[11,62,48,104,65,352,42,1524,103,16],"tags":[2090,4774,5012,4973,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563"}],"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=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37000,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions\/37000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}