{"id":184,"date":"2007-11-26T07:14:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T11:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/11\/26\/my-family-needs-me-limerick-and-video\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T02:05:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T06:05:38","slug":"my-family-needs-me-limerick-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/11\/26\/my-family-needs-me-limerick-and-video\/","title":{"rendered":"My Family Needs Me (Limerick and Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always amused when politicians and other public figures get into legal hot water and\u00a0develop a sudden urge to spend more time with their family.<\/p>\n<p>They generally issue some sort of lame press release that nobody believes and then, if we&#8217;re lucky, they spend a whole lot of time in prison.\u00a0 If we&#8217;re not so lucky, we get to watch them spout off on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>But getting back to their woefully inadequate press releases,\u00a0 I thought as a public service I&#8217;d write a generic resignation limerick:<\/p>\n<p>My Family Needs Me<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>My family needs me &#8212; can&#8217;t stay.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m dismayed that I must go away.<br \/>\nBut I want to spend time<br \/>\nWith my wife, who&#8217;s sublime.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not my indictment, okay?<\/p>\n<p>You can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zd4ptyjLobo\">it here on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Politicians Humor, Public Figures,\u00a0Family Time, Resignation Humor, Political Humor Video[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always amused when politicians and other public figures get into legal hot water and\u00a0develop a sudden urge to spend more time with their family. They generally issue some sort of lame press release that nobody believes and then, if we&#8217;re lucky, they spend a whole lot of time in prison.\u00a0 If we&#8217;re not so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,6,7,3,88,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-social-satire","category-video-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}