{"id":1042,"date":"2009-05-20T18:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2009-05-20T18:53:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:53:51","slug":"colonscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/05\/20\/colonscopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Tropical Breeze Colonoscopies (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t bad enough that <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/capitol-briefing\/2009\/05\/citing_tropical_breezes_sessio.html\">Sen. Jeff Sessions cited &#8220;tropical breezes&#8221;<\/a> in extolling the glories of Gitmo.  Now we have <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/george\/2009\/05\/caught-my-eye-t.html\">Sen. Jim Inhofe  bragging about Gitmo&#8217;s health care &#8212; colonoscopies for inmates over fifty-five.<\/a>  Whoopee!<\/p>\n<p>If I were British, I&#8217;d probably write this song parody:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gitmo Prison, here I come.<br \/>\nNeed a doc to check my bum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But instead, I&#8217;ll have to settle for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To Tropical Breeze Colonoscopies<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m moving to Gitmo real soon<br \/>\nCuz I&#8217;m told inmate health care&#8217;s a boon.<br \/>\nColonoscopies free<br \/>\nAfter fifty-five. Whee!<br \/>\nSo please lock me up, Sen. Buffoon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t bad enough that Sen. Jeff Sessions cited &#8220;tropical breezes&#8221; in extolling the glories of Gitmo. Now we have Sen. Jim Inhofe bragging about Gitmo&#8217;s health care &#8212; colonoscopies for inmates over fifty-five. Whoopee! If I were British, I&#8217;d probably write this song parody: Gitmo Prison, here I come. Need a doc to check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[707,709,710,6,7,3,9,12],"tags":[713,711,716,661,714,2849,712,715,702,2756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}