{"id":9782,"date":"2011-11-14T19:37:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2011-11-14T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:48:21","slug":"limerick-phase-limerick-off-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/11\/14\/limerick-phase-limerick-off-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Phase (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\/174162216010379\">on Facebook too<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here\u2019s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/11\/14\/limerick-of-the-week-35\/\">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 went through a phase&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman who went through a phase&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s mine:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Phase<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A fellow who went through a phase<br \/>\nOf using a ton of clich\u00e9s<br \/>\nWould talk up a storm<br \/>\nAnd refused to reform,<br \/>\nAs he babbled each over-used phrase.<\/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\/174162216010379\">my Facebook Limerick-Off post.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nTo 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":[49,54,62,53,104,65,352,42,103,64],"tags":[1847,1944,4943,4973,1846,203],"class_list":["post-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-communication-humor","category-contests","category-language-humor","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limerick-offs","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","category-poetry-contest","tag-bores","tag-cliches-humor","tag-communication-humor","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-talkative","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782","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=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9984,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions\/9984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}