{"id":1134,"date":"2009-06-08T02:06:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T06:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2009-06-08T02:32:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T06:32:05","slug":"liz-cheneys-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/06\/08\/liz-cheneys-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney&#8217;s Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Judge Sonia Sotomayor was first nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, I started writing this <a href=\" http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0509\/Huck_comes_out_firing__at_Maria_Sotomayor.html\">Mike Huckabee-related<\/a> song parody: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maria,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d swear that her name was Maria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, I got distracted and never finished it.  However, I did find another use for this <a href=\" http:\/\/www.hamienet.com\/midi24159_Maria-Ballet-Maria.html\">Leonard Bernstein West Side Story tune.<\/a>  My latest song parody concerns the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_06\/018504.php\">ubiquitous Liz Cheney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Liz Cheney&#8217;s Song<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Liz Cheney.<br \/>\nYou just can&#8217;t avoid Lizzie Cheney.<br \/>\nThe former Veep&#8217;s to blame.<br \/>\nTheir surnames are the same, you see.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Cheney.<br \/>\nI sure would not miss Lizzie Cheney,<br \/>\nIf suddenly I found<br \/>\nLiz Cheney unrenowned.  Yippee!<\/p>\n<p>Liz Cheney.<br \/>\nSay it loud and her lies are playing.<br \/>\nMake her stop, I confess I am praying.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Cheney.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll never stop fibbing.<br \/>\nLiz Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>The most terrible lies I&#8217;ve ever heard.<br \/>\nLiz Cheney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Judge Sonia Sotomayor was first nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, I started writing this Mike Huckabee-related song parody: Maria, I&#8217;d swear that her name was Maria. Unfortunately, I got distracted and never finished it. However, I did find another use for this Leonard Bernstein West Side Story tune. My latest song parody concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[717,26,151,3,4,727],"tags":[2754,2748,750,2850,751,752,2807,402,728],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134"}],"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=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}