{"id":17386,"date":"2025-02-06T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=17386"},"modified":"2025-02-06T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:06:04","slug":"our-constitutional-collapse-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2025\/02\/06\/our-constitutional-collapse-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Constitutional Collapse (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to be able to write funny limericks. But these days, most of them are serious and depressing. This excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/414a8NV\">Karen Tumulty column<\/a> largely inspired this one:<br \/><br \/>An Executive Branch run amok!<br \/>Sen. &#8220;Advice and Consent?&#8221; No such luck!<br \/>Our Democracy&#8217;s hacked<br \/>And our nation&#8217;s soul&#8217;s cracked.<br \/>So what else can one say except FUCK!?! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be able to write funny limericks. But these days, most of them are serious and depressing. This excellent Karen Tumulty column largely inspired this one: An Executive Branch run amok!Sen. &#8220;Advice and Consent?&#8221; No such luck!Our Democracy&#8217;s hackedAnd our nation&#8217;s soul&#8217;s cracked.So what else can one say except FUCK!?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,1550,20,154,6,12,3543],"tags":[4247,307,2897,215,394,3218,2681,3013,3817,1075,2761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386"}],"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=17386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17389,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386\/revisions\/17389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}