{"id":10816,"date":"2015-03-02T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=10816"},"modified":"2015-03-03T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T19:52:00","slug":"education-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2015\/03\/02\/education-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Want President to Have a High School Diploma (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Want President to Have a High School Diploma<\/p>\n<p>A new Public Opinion Polling survey finds that 62% of voters think it\u2019s important for the President to have a high school diploma, compared to only 31% who think it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting: \u201cThere\u2019s a large partisan divide on the issue: Democrats by an 81%-14% spread think it\u2019s important, while Republicans are evenly divided on the matter at 45%-45%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked to respond to this poll, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said, &#8220;Only elitists and ISIS supporters would buy into that requirement, whereas Senator Rand Paul said, &#8220;Have I mentioned that I&#8217;m a doctor?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, a fellow presidential hopeful, disagreed with both men, saying &#8220;Don&#8217;t glasses make me look smart?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I was chagrined to learn that my column has fallen afoul of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poe%27s_law\">Poe&#8217;s Law.<\/a>  What the heck is Poe&#8217;s Law?  The &#8220;literary adage which stipulates that without a clear indicator of an author&#8217;s intended sarcasm it becomes impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So for anyone who read this and accepted the poll as real and\/or any of the quotes as real, this is hundred percent parody.  It was inspired by an actual poll related to whether people believe a U.S. President should have a college degree. <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 2:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Poe&#8217;s Law compressed into a haiku:<\/p>\n<p>In extremist times<br \/>\nreality\/parody<br \/>\nappear to have merged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Want President to Have a High School Diploma A new Public Opinion Polling survey finds that 62% of voters think it\u2019s important for the President to have a high school diploma, compared to only 31% who think it doesn\u2019t matter. Interesting: \u201cThere\u2019s a large partisan divide on the issue: Democrats by an 81%-14% spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,2585,20,2584,6,3,1317,9,635,1528,17],"tags":[192,1303,194,2925,2763,2586,2587,2588,2880,702,2845,2896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816"}],"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=10816"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10832,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions\/10832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}