{"id":129,"date":"2025-04-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snarglefarg.wordpress.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:03:51","slug":"weird-al-yankovic-the-biggest-ball-of-twine-in-minnesota-reimagined-as-a-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/14\/weird-al-yankovic-the-biggest-ball-of-twine-in-minnesota-reimagined-as-a-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota&#8221; by &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic: Reimagined as a limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1880\" height=\"1058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-5709728-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\nA neatly wound ball of light brown twine or yarn rests on a wooden surface. 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The background is dimly lit.\" class=\"wp-image-132\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-5709728-edited.jpeg 1880w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-5709728-edited-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-5709728-edited-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-5709728-edited-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-5709728-edited-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1880px) 100vw, 1880px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">A dad, with his kin full of glee,<br>To Minnesota they longed just to be.<br>Past odd sights they did roam,<br>To a stringy sphere's home,<br>A grand ball of twine they would see!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Biggest Ball of Twine In Minnesota\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yv_QUiDYTTg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dad, with his kin full of glee,To Minnesota they longed just to be.Past odd sights they did roam,To a stringy sphere&#8217;s home,A grand ball of twine they would see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,23,27,45,47,49],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-limericks","tag-biggest-ball-of-twine","tag-limerick","tag-minnesota","tag-twine-ball","tag-weird-al","tag-yankovic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-5709728.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}