{"id":13707,"date":"2017-03-07T17:09:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=13707"},"modified":"2017-03-07T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:49:10","slug":"ben-carson-slaves-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2017\/03\/07\/ben-carson-slaves-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson&#8217;s No Slave To Accuracy (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When HUD Secretary Ben Carson was criticized for conflating slaves and immigrants, he complained that his words had been misconstrued.  Unfortunately, however, Carson has a long history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/03\/ben-carson-immigrants-slaves-235771\">referring to slaves as immigrants.<\/a> So he&#8217;s earned himself this limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Slaves forcibly shipped to our nation<br \/>\n(Per Ben Carson&#8217;s REPEATED conflation)<br \/>\nWere immigrants. Wow!<br \/>\nOffensive? And how!<br \/>\nHas his brain suffered O2 privation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When HUD Secretary Ben Carson was criticized for conflating slaves and immigrants, he complained that his words had been misconstrued. Unfortunately, however, Carson has a long history of referring to slaves as immigrants. So he&#8217;s earned himself this limerick: Slaves forcibly shipped to our nation (Per Ben Carson&#8217;s REPEATED conflation) Were immigrants. Wow! Offensive? And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2617,1550,20,2354,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2927,618,2569,619,3014,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707"}],"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=13707"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13715,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions\/13715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}