{"id":5347,"date":"2014-05-01T02:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:30:11","slug":"a-quartet-of-limericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=5347","title":{"rendered":"A Quartet of Limericks (by Puchi Ann)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"label\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Summary: \u00a0<\/span>Ben Cartwright reflects on his three sons in this quartet of limerick verses.<\/p>\n<p>Rated: K \u00a0(134 words)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Quartet of Limericks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My eldest is college-educated.<br \/>\nAt times I think that\u2019s over-rated!<br \/>\nHis emotional control<br \/>\nAnd his stone-stubborn soul<br \/>\nMake me doubt that we\u2019re even related!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0While my middle boy seems meek and mild,<br \/>\nSlow to wrath, innocent as a child,<br \/>\nJust hurt anything small<br \/>\nAnd in no time at all,<br \/>\nHow you\u2019ll wish you had not got him riled!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My youngest boy\u2019s giggles and laughter<br \/>\nFill our home from cellar to rafter.<br \/>\nBut he\u2019s equally known<br \/>\nAs a lad mischief-prone,<br \/>\nWhom, frequently, troubles chase after.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My poetry\u2019s not worth a great lot;<br \/>\nOf me hist\u2019ry records not a jot.<br \/>\nThree fine sons with my name<br \/>\nAre my great claim to fame<br \/>\nAnd more joy than my heart ever sought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: \u00a0Ben Cartwright reflects on his three sons in this quartet of limerick verses.<\/p>\n<p>Rated: K \u00a0(134 words)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1008,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-poetry","wpcat-1008-id","wpcat-9-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CartwrightFamily.jpg?fit=259%2C194&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}