{"id":175,"date":"2007-10-30T01:47:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/10\/30\/the-poetry-of-rudy-giuliani\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T02:03:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T06:03:50","slug":"the-poetry-of-rudy-giuliani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/10\/30\/the-poetry-of-rudy-giuliani\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Of Rudy Giuliani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Rudy Giuliani is a poet?\u00a0 Me neither.\u00a0 So I was really surprised to unearth the poetry of Rudy Giuliani.\u00a0Here are six poems I found in the <em>Rudy Reader<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Police the skies.<br \/>\nCede to lawful authority.<br \/>\nThe era of fear.<\/p>\n<p>America needs to be defended.<br \/>\nThis is not the product of accident.<br \/>\nThis is a business.<br \/>\nThis is the product of design.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom is about authority.<br \/>\nI hate to toot my own horn,<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m good at.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese people always skinny, never fat.<br \/>\nWho knows why those things happen?<\/p>\n<p>You have less of a chance of being murdered,<br \/>\nMugged, beaten or robbed here,<br \/>\nThan just about any place in any large city in Texas.<br \/>\nThank God George Bush is our President.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s now make this kind of a permanent condition.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m running.<br \/>\nRelax and deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>(Editor&#8217;s Note Regarding Rudy&#8217;s &#8220;Found Poetry&#8221;:\u00a0 All the above words came out of Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s mouth, although not necessarily in the order presented. For more info about <a href=\"http:\/\/missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/monday-poetry-stretch-found-poetry.html\">&#8220;found poetry&#8221; check out this post<\/a>.)[tags]Rudy Giuliani Verse, Found Poetry, Political Humor[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Rudy Giuliani is a poet?\u00a0 Me neither.\u00a0 So I was really surprised to unearth the poetry of Rudy Giuliani.\u00a0Here are six poems I found in the Rudy Reader: Police the skies. Cede to lawful authority. The era of fear. America needs to be defended. This is not the product of accident. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,7,3,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-poetry","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-rudy-giuliani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}