{"id":3253,"date":"2005-04-07T14:01:30","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T21:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/07\/limerick-for-a-swan\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T19:10:33","slug":"limerick-for-a-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/07\/limerick-for-a-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick for a Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8433,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/groups\\\/flickr-irc&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260202205232\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/groups\\\/flickr-irc\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:11:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 20:01:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 10:29:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 23:07:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 10:16:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 10:16:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8542,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cygnoir.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308143353\\\/https:\\\/\\\/cygnoir.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:53:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 09:45:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 09:45:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>When I dropped into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/flickr-irc\/\" title=\"Flickr: #flickr\">#flickr channel<\/a> today on lunch, the denizens were tossing around limericks for the various regulars. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cygnoir.net\/\" title=\"halsted . mencotti . bernard\">Cygnoir<\/a> hadn&#8217;t been graced with one yet, so I managed to come up with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Cygnoir&#8217;s on a poetry kick<br \/>\n  but finding a rhyme for her nick<br \/>\n  isn&#8217;t easy to do<br \/>\n  so I hope when I&#8217;m through<br \/>\n  she&#8217;ll laugh &#8216;staid of aiming a kick!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not bad for coming right off the top of my head. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I dropped into the #flickr channel today on lunch, the denizens were tossing around limerics for the various regulars. Cygnoir hadn&#8217;t been graced with one yet, so I managed to come up one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}