{"id":9775,"date":"2011-10-30T01:23:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T05:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=9775"},"modified":"2011-10-30T14:21:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T18:21:48","slug":"slippery-limerick-limerick-off-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/10\/30\/slippery-limerick-limerick-off-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Slippery 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=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/158617537568509\">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\/10\/30\/limerick-of-the-week-33\/\">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 just let it slip&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman who just let it slip&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s mine:<\/p>\n<p>Slippery Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A fellow who just let it slip<br \/>\nThat his wife got a tuck and a nip<br \/>\nThrew their marriage off course<br \/>\nAnd was sued for divorce.<br \/>\nMaybe next time he&#8217;ll zip up his lip.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkane\/posts\/158617537568509\">on 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":[11,62,13,23,122,104,65,352,42,2,68,103,64,16],"tags":[1691,2533,1027,4902,2534,4953,1752,4973,650,1846,203],"class_list":["post-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-of-the-sexes","category-contests","category-family-humor","category-health-humor","category-health-verse","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-marriage-humor","category-physical-appearance","category-poetry-prompts","category-poetry-contest","category-relationship-humor","tag-health-medical-humor","tag-loose-tongue","tag-marital-relationships","tag-marriage-humor","tag-nip-tuck","tag-physical-appearance","tag-plastic-surgery","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-relationships-poetry","tag-talkative","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775","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=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9884,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions\/9884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}