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<\/a>Jack and Jill went out to kill Vampires they saught to slaughter… But Jack stabbed Jill On top of the Hill… Said she was the Devil’s Daughter… ————– Written for the P&W Bloggers group on Facebook…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,2479],"tags":[843,4217,4216],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-poems","category-ghost-story","tag-halloween","tag-jack-and-jill","tag-limerick","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1bg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1264,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/tullamore-rhymers-at-mixed-messages\/","url_meta":{"origin":4542,"position":0},"title":"Tullamore Rhymers at Mixed Messages","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"29th November 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Mixed Messages is a unique poetry event, where there are no intros, no MC, and the run of the night is sporadic, and disorganized, officially. 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