{"id":9673,"date":"2015-02-16T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2015-02-16T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:30:07","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-doing-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-doing-without\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: DOING WITHOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lent\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DOING WITHOUT
\nTo avoid any purchase or rent
\nWas my niggardly neighbor’s intent,
\nSo I said with mock sorrow,
\n\u201cI don’t have what you’d borrow:
\nIt’s Ash Wednesday, it’s already Lent.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the archive<\/em><\/p>\n

MARDI GRAS TIME
\nIn New Orleans, where everyone knows
\nHow to scramble for carnival throws,
\nIt\u2019s just one day of fun,
\nThen the madness is done \u2013
\nBut the madness in Madison grows.
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

HAPPY MARDI GRAS!
\nWhen the spirit of carnival reigns,
\nSober citizens unplug their brains;
\nEgotists in disguises
\nAre proffering prizes
\nTo propel presidential campaigns.
\n(2008)<\/p>\n

FAT TUESDAY
\nEvery revel unravels at last
\nAnd evaporates into the past,
\nFor today is soon spent
\nAnd tomorrow is Lent:
\nForty days to repent and to fast.
\n(2007)<\/p>\n

MAY WE?
\nIt\u2019s not a big \u201cfaux pas\u201d
\nWhen we say, \u201cOh, la la!\u201d
\nOr \u201claissez faire,\u201d
\nOr \u201cderriere,\u201d
\nOr Happy \u201cMardi Gras!\u201d
\n(2006)<\/p>\n

HAPPY MEDI-GRASS!
\nMarijuana has helped me a lot!
\nIt\u2019s a marvel, this medical \u201cpot\u201d!
\nMy condition\u2019s the same,
\nBut I\u2019m pleased to proclaim
\nI\u2019ve forgotten what illness I\u2019ve got!
\n(2005)<\/p>\n

Last week’s limerick<\/em><\/p>\n

PEACOCK
\n\u201cThere’s no point in anyone tryin’
\nTo find someone who’s better at lyin’,
\n‘Cause Barack is the best
\nAnd he does it with zest:
\nHe’s the perfect replacement for Brian!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: DOING WITHOUT To avoid any purchase or rent Was my niggardly neighbor’s intent, So I said with mock sorrow, \u201cI don’t have what you’d borrow: It’s Ash Wednesday, it’s already Lent.\u201d From the archive MARDI GRAS …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Your Weekly Politickle: DOING WITHOUT - Politickles","description":"Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: DOING WITHOUT To avoid any purchase or rent Was my niggardly neighbor's intent"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[995,4802,4800,588,996,4801,2442,7],"class_list":["post-9673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ash-wednesday","tag-borrowing-from-neighbor","tag-doing-without","tag-fr-duplantier","tag-lent","tag-neighbor-borrowing","tag-political-limerick","tag-politickle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}