{"id":12734,"date":"2016-05-26T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=12734"},"modified":"2016-05-26T17:11:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:11:48","slug":"orrin-hatch-garland-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2016\/05\/26\/orrin-hatch-garland-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Limerick To Orrin Hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I laughed out loud when I heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal-a\/2016_05\/orrin_hatch_gives_away_the_gam060663.php\">Sen. Orrin Hatch&#8217;s Deseret News op-ed, reporting the results of a meeting with Chief Judge Merrick Garland that had yet to take place:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLike many of my Senate colleagues, I recently met with Chief Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama\u2019s nominee to the Supreme Court. \u2026 Our meeting, however, does not change my conviction that the Senate should consider a Supreme Court nominee after this presidential election cycle,\u201d Hatch wrote in an op-ed published on the website of the Deseret News early Thursday morning and later removed. It remains available in a Google database.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Orrin, it isn&#8217;t a race<br \/>\nTo report on a meeting you&#8217;ll face.<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s best not to claim<br \/>\nIt did NOT change your game<br \/>\nWhen that meeting has yet to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I laughed out loud when I heard about Sen. Orrin Hatch&#8217;s Deseret News op-ed, reporting the results of a meeting with Chief Judge Merrick Garland that had yet to take place: \u201cLike many of my Senate colleagues, I recently met with Chief Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama\u2019s nominee to the Supreme Court. \u2026 Our meeting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,20,74,6,7,3,9,13],"tags":[2705,2787,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734"}],"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=12734"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12746,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions\/12746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}