{"id":249,"date":"2008-09-24T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/09\/24\/did-the-dog-eat-john-mccains-debate-notes\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T02:46:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T06:46:44","slug":"did-the-dog-eat-john-mccains-debate-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/09\/24\/did-the-dog-eat-john-mccains-debate-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Did The Dog Eat John McCain&#8217;s Debate Notes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain is so scared to debate Obama, that he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/2008\/09\/mccain_suspends_campaign.html?hpid=topnews\">reneged on his Friday debate commitment<\/a> all in the name of patriotism.\u00a0\u00a0 Yup &#8212; the guy who almost never shows up for Senate votes,\u00a0 is apparently planning to swoop into Washington, fix our fiscal crisis and, only then, resume campaigning and debate.\u00a0 After all,\u00a0 John McCain is such a &#8220;country first&#8221; kinda guy.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iE2JCSH5p9r2GBkQWS9TWAMzmuvQD93DA08O0\">Obama isn&#8217;t falling for the canceled debate bait.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did The Dog Eat John McCain&#8217;s Debate Notes? (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>This Friday&#8217;s debate won&#8217;t proceed,<br \/>\nSays McCain, while pretending to lead.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve a crisis at hand.<br \/>\nCountry first &#8212; his demand.<br \/>\nBe a patriot, John, and concede.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain is so scared to debate Obama, that he&#8217;s reneged on his Friday debate commitment all in the name of patriotism.\u00a0\u00a0 Yup &#8212; the guy who almost never shows up for Senate votes,\u00a0 is apparently planning to swoop into Washington, fix our fiscal crisis and, only then, resume campaigning and debate.\u00a0 After all,\u00a0 John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,124,44,21,114,20,40,154,6,7,3,9],"tags":[192,398,194,396,399,397,395,360],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-debate-humor","category-economy-humor","category-election-satire","category-fiscal-policy","category-gop-humor","category-john-mccain","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-campaign-satire","tag-country-first","tag-election-humor","tag-fiscal-crisis","tag-mccain-humor","tag-patriotism-humor","tag-presidential-debate","tag-senator-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}