{"id":1066,"date":"2009-05-26T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2009-05-26T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:30:15","slug":"ben-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/05\/26\/ben-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Nelson, DINO \u2026 Or Dinosaur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_05\/018329.php\">Sen. Ben Nelson&#8217;s a  Democrat, you&#8217;d swear he&#8217;s a conservative Republican.<\/a>  And that&#8217;s why the fantasy of a Frankenized, filibuster-proof Senate is ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Nelson, DINO \u2026 Or Dinosaur?<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>From Nebraska comes Senator Ben,<br \/>\nA Dem with an anti-Dem yen &#8212;<br \/>\nMakes Connecticut Joe<br \/>\nSeem a liberal bro,<br \/>\nAnd Arlen, a prince among men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t know Sen. Ben Nelson&#8217;s a Democrat, you&#8217;d swear he&#8217;s a conservative Republican. And that&#8217;s why the fantasy of a Frankenized, filibuster-proof Senate is ludicrous. Ben Nelson, DINO \u2026 Or Dinosaur? By Madeleine Begun Kane From Nebraska comes Senator Ben, A Dem with an anti-Dem yen &#8212; Makes Connecticut Joe Seem a liberal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[724,725,22,6],"tags":[726,2851,722,2765,723],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arlen-specter-humor","category-ben-nelson-humor","category-joe-lieberman","category-political-limericks","tag-arlen-specter","tag-ben-nelson","tag-connecticut","tag-joe-lieberman","tag-nebraska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}