{"id":262,"date":"2008-10-16T18:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T22:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/10\/16\/ode-to-john-air-quotes-mccain\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T18:18:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:18:05","slug":"ode-to-john-air-quotes-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/10\/16\/ode-to-john-air-quotes-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To John “Air-Quotes” McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarcastic air-quotes around “health” in “health of the mother”?<\/a> Who the hell uses sarcastic air-quotes anymore … let alone when referring to women’s health? Big mistake, Senator McCain!<\/p>\n

Which reminds me — during last night’s debate I had a revelation about the gravitas-test versus the guy-you’d-enjoy-having-a-beer-with-test.\u00a0 In this year’s election, gravitas-guy (Obama)\u00a0 is also the fellow I’d enjoy having a beer with … if\u00a0only I liked beer:<\/p>\n

Ode To John “Air-Quotes” McCain
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Many voters ask:\u00a0 Whose views are best,
\nAs opposed to the drinking-pal test.
\nBut whichever the measure,
\nObama’s my pleasure.
\nMcCain?\u00a0 He’s a cranky old pest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarcastic air-quotes around “health” in “health of the mother”? Who the hell uses sarcastic air-quotes anymore … let alone when referring to women’s health? Big mistake, Senator McCain! Which reminds me — during last night’s debate I had a revelation about the gravitas-test versus the guy-you’d-enjoy-having-a-beer-with-test.\u00a0 In this year’s election, gravitas-guy (Obama)\u00a0 is also the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,95,72,124,21,121,153,52,40,88],"tags":[326,192,325,330,194,322,331,323,240,329,328],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-rights","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-debate-humor","category-election-satire","category-feminism-humor","category-gender-politics","category-health-satire","category-john-mccain","category-social-satire","tag-air-quotes","tag-campaign-satire","tag-debate-limerick","tag-drinking-pals","tag-election-humor","tag-mccain-verse","tag-mothers-health","tag-obama-poem","tag-presidential-election","tag-sarcasm","tag-womens-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}