{"id":314,"date":"2008-11-30T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T20:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=314"},"modified":"2008-12-01T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:09:03","slug":"irony-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/11\/30\/irony-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony Has At Least Seven More Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the media  is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/23\/fashion\/23irony.html\">debating the purported death of irony.<\/a>  Nine-eleven killed it the last time, and this year&#8217;s culprit is Barack Obama.  Lucky for humorists (and their readers), irony apparently has a cat-like nine lives:<\/p>\n<p>Irony Has At Least Seven More Lives<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s election&#8217;s to blame<br \/>\nFor irony&#8217;s death, many claim.<br \/>\nIs there nothing to mock?<br \/>\nTo satirically knock?<br \/>\nSpoof the press and the pundits &#8212; I&#8217;m game.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s always the cowardly Dems,<br \/>\nAnd obstreperous GOP &#8220;gems,&#8221;<br \/>\nGreedy banks, AIG,<br \/>\nCEOs, bad TV.<br \/>\nStart lampooning &#8212; no haws and no hems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the media is debating the purported death of irony. Nine-eleven killed it the last time, and this year&#8217;s culprit is Barack Obama. Lucky for humorists (and their readers), irony apparently has a cat-like nine lives: Irony Has At Least Seven More Lives By Madeleine Begun Kane Obama&#8217;s election&#8217;s to blame For irony&#8217;s death, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,95,54,212,26,154,6,7,3,17],"tags":[217,216,214,213,215,219,221,205,218,222,220,223],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911-satire","category-barack-obama","category-entertainment-humor","category-irony","category-media-satire","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house","tag-aig","tag-banks","tag-ceos","tag-death-of-irony","tag-gop","tag-greed","tag-humor","tag-press","tag-pundits","tag-satire","tag-television","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}