{"id":189,"date":"2025-04-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snarglefarg.wordpress.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:25:52","slug":"queens-bohemian-rhapsody-reimagined-as-a-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/23\/queens-bohemian-rhapsody-reimagined-as-a-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221; by Queen: Reimagined as a limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1450\" height=\"1099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/walk-this-way.png?w=1024\" alt=\"A stark black silhouette of three figures, resembling the iconic shot from Queen&#039;s &quot;Bohemian Rhapsody&quot; music video, stands against a graduated gray background that fades from light at the top to dark at the bottom.\" class=\"wp-image-202\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/walk-this-way.png 1450w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/walk-this-way-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/walk-this-way-1024x776.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/walk-this-way-768x582.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">Young Freddie, with truths to confess,<br>Felt his old self caused him distress.<br>With a \"Mama, I'm through,\"<br>A new path he'd pursue,<br>Though the wind blew with societal stress.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"944\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bohemian-Rhapsody.png\" alt=\"Word cloud of the lyrics to the song, &quot;Bohemian Rhapsody.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-729\" style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9;object-fit:cover\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bohemian-Rhapsody.png 944w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bohemian-Rhapsody-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bohemian-Rhapsody-768x430.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Queen \u2013 Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJ9rUzIMcZQ?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">>>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/category\/limericks\/\">More Limericks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A limerick on Freddie Mercury&#8217;s confession in Queen&#8217;s Bohemian Rhapsody, capturing his personal struggle and the pressures he faced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202,"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":[3,91],"tags":[11,23,33],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-limericks","category-music","tag-bohemian-rhapsody","tag-limerick","tag-queen"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/walk-this-way.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}