{"id":165,"date":"2007-10-17T17:43:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T21:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/10\/17\/pondering-rudy\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T21:59:21","slug":"pondering-rudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/10\/17\/pondering-rudy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pondering Rudy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in New York City, so I&#8217;m pretty familiar with the pros and cons of Rudy Giuliani. And yes, there are pros.\u00a0 What pros?\u00a0 Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2007\/08\/20\/070820fa_fact_boyer\">Rudy does love opera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0as ornery, self-centered, and first amendment-hating as Rudy was during his New York City Mayor years, he never struck me as being insane. Yet his current\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dickpolman.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/rudy-and-hillary-and-larry.html\">outsized hawkishness<\/a> does seem &#8230; well &#8230; crazy. So I can&#8217;t help wondering whether Rudy&#8217;s crazed warmongering is real or a ruse.\u00a0 (Not that I want to find out, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>Pondering Rudy (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Rudy acts like a war-loving crank.<br \/>\nIs his hawkishness feigned, else he&#8217;ll tank<br \/>\nAs Republicans\u00a0see<br \/>\nThat he doesn&#8217;t agree<br \/>\nWith most of the GOP plank?[tags]Rudy Giuliani Humor, GOP Hawks, New York City Mayors[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in New York City, so I&#8217;m pretty familiar with the pros and cons of Rudy Giuliani. And yes, there are pros.\u00a0 What pros?\u00a0 Well, Rudy does love opera. And\u00a0as ornery, self-centered, and first amendment-hating as Rudy was during his New York City Mayor years, he never struck me as being insane. Yet his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,38,20,19,86,6,7,3,9,63,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}