{"id":10512,"date":"2014-10-01T00:04:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T04:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=10512"},"modified":"2014-10-01T00:04:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T04:04:51","slug":"military-surplus-humosurplus-madness-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2014\/10\/01\/military-surplus-humosurplus-madness-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Surplus Madness (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how police departments ended up looking like military units? An excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2014\/09\/police-departments-struggle-return-pentagon-military-surplus-gear\">Mother Jones article explains the method behind the madness<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve  tried to summarize in this limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Surplus Madness (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why cops appear ready for war,<br \/>\nStocked with Pentagon loaners galore:<br \/>\nLend your surplus to cops,<br \/>\nAnd your storage cost drops.<br \/>\nThen make give-backs an arduous chore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how police departments ended up looking like military units? An excellent Mother Jones article explains the method behind the madness, which I&#8217;ve tried to summarize in this limerick: Surplus Madness (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Here&#8217;s why cops appear ready for war, Stocked with Pentagon loaners galore: Lend your surplus to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[466,772,6],"tags":[2546,1562,776,2545,2543,2544,1706],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512"}],"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=10512"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10524,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions\/10524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}