{"id":34751,"date":"2011-05-05T23:48:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T03:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34751\/poems-trio-pet-limericks\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T23:48:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T03:48:01","slug":"poems-trio-pet-limericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34751\/poems-trio-pet-limericks\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS: A Quintet of Pet Limericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/34715\/friday-fling-fabulous-fun-pet-limericks\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><em>These were created for the Creative Poetry Corral&#8217;s first weekly Friday Fling poetry challenge.  Our topic this week is pets and the preferred format is the Limerick.  The first one was a crossover with the previous day&#8217;s CPC challenge, the Thematic Attic Thursday, in which Mother&#8217;s Day was the topic.  The second one is silly fun about a pet relationship gone too far.  The third is a 10-10-7-7-10 Limerick. \u00a0The last two are ones I wrote as comment replies on the Fling, the last in 11-11-7-7-11.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/?action=view&amp;current=cats_hugging-1-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/cats_hugging-1-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/?action=view&amp;current=costume5bopeep-1-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/costume5bopeep-1-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&lt;img src=&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/?action=view&amp;current=posh_hamster-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Decorated%20images\/posh_hamster-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>I once had a pet snake named Gossett<br \/>\nwho lived in a box in my closet<br \/>\nwhen one day he escaped<br \/>\n(the box top was not taped)<br \/>\nthat snake was no more my pet, was it?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>There once was a swell hamster, Magonagle<br \/>\nwho dressed up in a top hat and monacle.<br \/>\nWhen a Guinea Pig lady<br \/>\nnamed Margaret Mulcady<br \/>\ncame by, she laughed, &#8217;cause he looked so comical.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/34715\/friday-fling-fabulous-fun-pet-limericks\/ These were created for the Creative Poetry Corral&#8217;s first weekly Friday Fling poetry challenge. Our topic this week is pets and the preferred format is the Limerick. The first one was a crossover with the previous day&#8217;s CPC challenge, the Thematic Attic Thursday, in which Mother&#8217;s Day was the topic. The second one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}