{"id":316,"date":"1988-07-29T14:07:35","date_gmt":"1988-07-29T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2011-05-21T23:50:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T06:50:29","slug":"limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1988\/07\/29\/limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought up the name of a limerick one day<br \/>\nBut never could find quite the right way<br \/>\nTo express such humour<br \/>\n(I&#8217;m a late bloomer)<br \/>\nIn a way to bring laughs into such dull days.<\/p>\n<p>I never quite seemed to get the rhyming right<br \/>\nAnd the rhythm &#8211; well a black man I know I ain&#8217;t<br \/>\nBut what saved the day<br \/>\nSo my friends say<br \/>\nAre these two silly stupid little rhyming lines that always seem<br \/>\nso tacky and corny and contrived in little ridiculous limericks that half<br \/>\nthe time aren&#8217;t even funny but just plain stupid anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought up the name of a limerick one day<br \/> But never could find quite the right way<br \/> To express such humour<br \/> (I&#8217;m a late bloomer)<br \/> In a way to bring laughs into such dull days.<\/p>\n<p>I never quite seemed to get the rhyming right<br \/> And the rhythm &#8211; well a black man I know [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}