{"id":2962,"date":"2010-03-31T16:45:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2010-04-01T04:15:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:15:04","slug":"oil-drilling-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/31\/oil-drilling-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Drilling? Chill, Obama, Chill!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many of my fellow progressives, I am dismayed by Obama&#8217;s plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/31\/science\/earth\/31energy.html\">open offshore areas to oil and natural gas drilling for the first time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before I get to my latest limerick, here are some other bloggers who are aggravated by plans to open coastal waters to oil exploration: <a href=\"http:\/\/xnerg.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/this-is-not-good.html\">skippy,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/john-amato\/drilling-oil-say-what\">John Amato,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/im-so-excited-i-just-bipartisaned-in-my.html\">Melissa McEwan,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormarsh.com\/2010\/03\/31\/obamas-energy-politics\/\">Taylor Marsh,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2010\/03\/31\/drill-baby-drill-obama-calls-for-lifting-of-20-year-ban-on-drilling-off-virginia-coastline\/\">Jonathan Turley.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now, my limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Drilling? Chill, Obama, Chill!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s pronouncement ain&#8217;t thrilling.<br \/>\nHe plans to expand off-shore drilling.<br \/>\nAs a gal from the left<br \/>\nI am Mad and bereft.<br \/>\nTell me, what has Obama been swilling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many of my fellow progressives, I am dismayed by Obama&#8217;s plans to open offshore areas to oil and natural gas drilling for the first time. Before I get to my latest limerick, here are some other bloggers who are aggravated by plans to open coastal waters to oil exploration: skippy, John Amato, Melissa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,95,1264,6,7,3,17],"tags":[1263,1265,1266,1267,323,1262,1142],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44-humor","category-barack-obama","category-energy-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house","tag-coastal-waters","tag-energy-satire","tag-liberals","tag-natural-gas","tag-obama-poem","tag-oil-drilling","tag-progressives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","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=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}