{"id":15552,"date":"2019-05-14T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=15552"},"modified":"2019-05-14T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:12:38","slug":"grassley-trump-letter-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2019\/05\/14\/grassley-trump-letter-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley&#8217;s Gonna Sit Right Down and Write The Prez a Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/white-house-explores-new-farmer-bailout-plan-as-us-china-trade-war-heats-up\/2019\/05\/14\/a7ee018e-7641-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html?utm_term=.00cbe6911113\">Washington Post<\/a>, re Trump&#8217;s tariffs:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said he planned to write a letter to Trump to explain the concerns of farmers because he felt the argument he had repeatedly made to the president in person was not registering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I apologize to<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I%27m_Gonna_Sit_Right_Down_and_Write_Myself_a_Letter\"> Ahlert and Young<\/a> for these song parody lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna sit right down and write the Prez a letter<br \/>\nAnd make believe that Trump can read.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna write words, oh, so sweet.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re gonna help guys growing wheat.<br \/>\nA lotta kisses on Trump&#8217;s bottom.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll be glad he got &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna smile and say I hope he&#8217;ll end his tariffs.<br \/>\nThen I&#8217;ll close with love the way I do.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna sit right down and write to help the farmers.<br \/>\nAnd pray my letter helps me too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post, re Trump&#8217;s tariffs: &#8220;Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said he planned to write a letter to Trump to explain the concerns of farmers because he felt the argument he had repeatedly made to the president in person was not registering.&#8221; I apologize to Ahlert and Young for these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1550,20,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[2374,1333,1256,2612,3278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552"}],"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=15552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15555,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552\/revisions\/15555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}