{"id":3032,"date":"2010-04-09T16:27:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2010-04-09T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:27:59","slug":"john-paul-stevens-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/04\/09\/john-paul-stevens-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Please Aim For Even Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of an era. The great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/10judge.html\">Justice John Paul Stevens has announced his resignation<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/04\/09\/stevens\/\">U.S. Supreme Court.<\/a> Here&#8217;s a thank you limerick for Justice Stevens:<\/p>\n<p>Obama, Please Aim For Even Stevens<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Great thanks to a judge I admire:<br \/>\nJustice Stevens, alas, must retire.<br \/>\nA supreme loss, indeed!<br \/>\nPlease Obama, take heed:<br \/>\nIn his place, name a judge who&#8217;ll inspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of an era. The great Justice John Paul Stevens has announced his resignation from the U.S. Supreme Court. Here&#8217;s a thank you limerick for Justice Stevens: Obama, Please Aim For Even Stevens By Madeleine Begun Kane Great thanks to a judge I admire: Justice Stevens, alas, must retire. A supreme loss, indeed! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10,2,168,6,13],"tags":[1277,1226,1093,323,1278,1089],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-judiciary","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-political-limericks","category-supreme-court","tag-john-paul-stevens","tag-judiciary-humor","tag-legal-verse","tag-obama-poem","tag-supreme-court-limerick","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","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=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}