{"id":507,"date":"2010-04-11T23:57:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2010-07-21T23:07:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T22:07:18","slug":"if-edward-lear-had-written-sonnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/11\/if-edward-lear-had-written-sonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"If Edward Lear had written Sonnets\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<address>There was an Old Man with a beard,<br \/>\nWho said &#8216;It is just as I feared! &#8211;<br \/>\nTwo Owls and a Hen,<br \/>\nFour Larks and a Wren,<br \/>\nHave all built their nests in my beard!&#8217;<\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe He would have wrote&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<address><em>There was a Man with a very long beard,<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>That grew not only long but ever so bushy<\/em><em> <\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>Who said &#8220;It&#8217;s dreadful and just as I feared! &#8211;<br \/>\nMy life is so annoying and not at all cushy<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>Two Tawny Owls and a Speckled Red Hen,<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>Nine Black Head Gulls and six little Sparrows<br \/>\nFour noisy Larks and a sweet little Wren,<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>Eight Canadian Geese and two tiny Swallows<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>And finallly a coinfident red chested robin<br \/>\nHave all come to stay and all built their nests<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>In my beard causing my chin to be throbbin&#8217;<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>They are really nasty annoying pests<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>So I will at last let my beard be shorn<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>Will sleep much better when its quiet at dawn<\/em>&#8220;<\/address>\n<address> <\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Which leads me to conclude&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<address>There was an old man called Lear<\/address>\n<address>Whose limericks some people hold dear<br \/>\n<\/address>\n<address>In the form of\u00a0 a sonnet<\/address>\n<address>The extra lines on it<\/address>\n<address>Would make the rhyme sound somewhat queer<br \/>\n<\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<address> <\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a Man with a very long beard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[160,159],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-limerick","tag-lear","tag-sonnets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}