{"id":263,"date":"2008-10-21T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T04:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/10\/21\/ode-to-sarah-geography-challenged-palin\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T21:48:08","slug":"ode-to-sarah-geography-challenged-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/10\/21\/ode-to-sarah-geography-challenged-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Sarah “Geography-Challenged” Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Palin has a very strange relationship with geography.\u00a0 Who else do you know who:<\/p>\n

1) Keeps an eye on Russia from her Alaska bedroom window;
\n2) Thinks Afghanistan is “our neighboring country;”<\/a>
\n3) Describes New Hampshire as being part of our “great Northwest;”<\/a> and
\n4) Tells crowds how much she enjoys visiting “pro-America areas” of America.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, that last one does make some sense to me:\u00a0Palin’s marriage to a (presumably reformed) secessionist,<\/a> must surely make meeting pro-America Americans\u00a0refreshing, indeed.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0 I do remain concerned about Palin’s Afghanistan and New Hampshire problem:<\/p>\n

Ode To Sarah “Geography-Challenged” Palin
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Gov. Palin’s geography gap
\nIs appalling. Please give her a map.
\nThis isn’t a test,
\nBut New Hampshire? Northwest?
\nOn our “neighbor” Afghanistan’s lap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Palin has a very strange relationship with geography.\u00a0 Who else do you know who: 1) Keeps an eye on Russia from her Alaska bedroom window; 2) Thinks Afghanistan is “our neighboring country;” 3) Describes New Hampshire as being part of our “great Northwest;” and 4) Tells crowds how much she enjoys visiting “pro-America areas” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,38,154,6,176],"tags":[316,318,192,194,317,288,321,315,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}