{"id":3122,"date":"2010-05-13T15:26:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T19:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2010-05-13T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T19:26:57","slug":"elena-kagan-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/05\/13\/elena-kagan-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Leery About Elena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, anti-Kagan attacks from the right have been inspiring some liberals to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_05\/023790.php\">rally around her.<\/a>  But I&#8217;m not among them. Not yet, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Now for all I know, Elena Kagan may be a closet liberal.  I sure hope so. But so far there&#8217;s little to suggest that Kagan&#8217;s any more liberal than President Obama, and that scares me.  <\/p>\n<p>Leery About Elena (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that Ms. Kagan&#8217;s quite smart.<br \/>\nSome say brilliant, but does she have heart?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve a liberal hole.<br \/>\nWill she fill it with soul,<br \/>\nOr tip the court &#8220;right&#8221; from the start?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, anti-Kagan attacks from the right have been inspiring some liberals to rally around her. But I&#8217;m not among them. Not yet, anyway. Now for all I know, Elena Kagan may be a closet liberal. I sure hope so. But so far there&#8217;s little to suggest that Kagan&#8217;s any more liberal than President Obama, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,1291,10,2,168,6,13],"tags":[2792,2879,1297,1226,1296,373,1266,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122"}],"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=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}