{"id":2448,"date":"2010-11-02T00:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2010-11-02T00:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:42:35","slug":"inliwrimo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2010\/11\/inliwrimo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"InLiWriMo #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limericks are like haiku, a short pithy form, but unlike haiku, the rhythm is more flexible. You don&#8217;t have to begin on the downstroke, the first beat of the bar, so to speak. The second word in this limerick is the first stress.<\/p>\n<p>Also, as it&#8217;s a common, low culture form, there are no rules that can&#8217;t be broken so long as you stick to meter and rhyme,  more or less. It&#8217;s traditional to end with a punchline, but the subject doesn&#8217;t have to be comic. This one opens in the middle of a musical narrative. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So Johnny said &#8220;Bonnie, it&#8217;s true<br \/>\nI would, but my digeridoo<br \/>\nMy banjo and bass<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t fit into the case<br \/>\nWith Donny&#8217;s trombone in there, too&#8221;<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n<p><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/22\/39615991_aec2c195e4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limericks are like haiku, a short pithy form, but unlike haiku, the rhythm is more flexible. You don&#8217;t have to begin on the downstroke, the first beat of the bar, so to speak. The second word in this limerick is the first stress. Also, as it&#8217;s a common, low culture form, there are no rules [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[458,457],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-limerick","tag-trombone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}