{"id":17692,"date":"2026-07-09T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=17692"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:59:15","slug":"lesson-finally-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2026\/07\/09\/lesson-finally-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson (FINALLY) Learned???"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We need candidates worthy of trust,<br \/>So political vetting&#8217;s a must!<br \/>If that job is done badly,<br \/>The upshot is, sadly . . .<br \/>Yet another election year bust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need candidates worthy of trust,So political vetting&#8217;s a must!If that job is done badly,The upshot is, sadly . . .Yet another election year bust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,852,81,21,6,9,12,610],"tags":[2786,194,2764,4426,1949,4425,3346,4427],"class_list":["post-17692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy-humor","category-democrats-humor","category-democrats-satire","category-election-satire","category-political-limericks","category-republicans","category-senate","category-voting-satire","tag-campaign-humor","tag-election-humor","tag-election-satire","tag-graham-platner","tag-maine","tag-political-vetting","tag-susan-collins","tag-us-senate-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692","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=17692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17693,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692\/revisions\/17693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}