{"id":13823,"date":"2017-03-30T17:37:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T21:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2017-03-30T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T21:37:23","slug":"trump-threatens-freedom-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2017\/03\/30\/trump-threatens-freedom-caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Empty Threats (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexburnsNYT\/status\/847453476816695296\">tweet from Alex Burns<\/a> (New York Times &#038; CNN) inspired a limerick.  How?  It made me realize that Trump&#8217;s anti-Freedom Caucus rants may actually help its members:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Please, sir, don&#8217;t massively elevate us as the scourge of the mainline Republican Party.&#8221; Does anyone hear the Freedom Caucus saying this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While it&#8217;s true that Trump clearly outranks<br \/>\nThe Republican wingnuts, he tanks<br \/>\nWhen he threatens the Caucus<br \/>\nCalled &#8220;Freedom.&#8221; His raucous<br \/>\nAttacks might just make them say, &#8220;Thanks!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet from Alex Burns (New York Times &#038; CNN) inspired a limerick. How? It made me realize that Trump&#8217;s anti-Freedom Caucus rants may actually help its members: &#8220;Please, sir, don&#8217;t massively elevate us as the scourge of the mainline Republican Party.&#8221; Does anyone hear the Freedom Caucus saying this? While it&#8217;s true that Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1550,20,6,7,3,9,17,69],"tags":[2897,2635,394,2747,2456],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-gop-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","category-wingnuts","tag-donald-trump","tag-freedom-caucus","tag-house-republicans","tag-president-trump","tag-wingnut-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823","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=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13828,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions\/13828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}