{"id":15619,"date":"2019-04-07T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15619"},"modified":"2019-04-07T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:08:37","slug":"a-bunch-of-limericks-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15619","title":{"rendered":"A Bunch of Limericks: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I could have spent my entire limerick-writing weekend on the Kavanaugh hearing. It was such a comedic goldmine but, because of that, I considered it to be a high-competition area, so I worked on just a couple of variations. The repetition of the word &#8220;beer&#8221; (made famous by SNL) was an obvious ploy, and some of my variations used phrases such as &#8220;besotted with beer,&#8221; etc. Here are the two variations I liked best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Dems watched the Kavanaugh hearing,<br>They thought he was bitter and sneering.<br>But Republicans saw<br>Not a notable flaw<br>And to them he was sweet and endearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the hearing of Brett Kavanaugh<br>All the Democrats looked on in awe <br>As he ranted (fermented?)<br>Like a person demented,<br>But Republicans saw not a flaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could have spent my entire limerick-writing weekend on the Kavanaugh hearing. It was such a comedic goldmine but, because of that, I considered it to be a high-competition area, so I worked on just a couple of variations. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15619\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15626,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619\/revisions\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}