{"id":3621,"date":"2010-08-17T17:44:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2010-08-17T17:44:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:44:32","slug":"ground-zero-mosque-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/08\/17\/ground-zero-mosque-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosque Mockery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m never surprised when Republicans try to trash the U.S. Constitution.  But <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/114675-white-house-downplays-difference-between-obama-and-reid-on-mosque\">Senator Harry Reid&#8217;s position<\/a> about the proposed Cordoba House  &#8212; the inaccurately nicknamed &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque&#8221; &#8212;   disappointed me. <\/p>\n<p>But then what do I know?  I&#8217;m just a 1st amendment fan who lives in New York City.  And I&#8217;d rather see a mosque than a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/08\/17\/2010-08-17_will_ground_zero_mosque_move_gov_paterson_to_meet_with_developers_on_new_locatio.html\">burned out former Burlington Coat Factory store.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Mosque Mockery<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque&#8221; &#8212;  oh how shocking!<br \/>\nHurray for the folks who are blocking<br \/>\nThat mosque to replace<br \/>\nThe old coat-selling place.<br \/>\nIf perchance you can&#8217;t tell &#8212; yes, I&#8217;m mocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m never surprised when Republicans try to trash the U.S. Constitution. But Senator Harry Reid&#8217;s position about the proposed Cordoba House &#8212; the inaccurately nicknamed &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque&#8221; &#8212; disappointed me. But then what do I know? I&#8217;m just a 1st amendment fan who lives in New York City. And I&#8217;d rather see a mosque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,1388,196,156,6,7,3,152],"tags":[1384,307,1387,1088,1364,2826,1386,1385,645,548,1242],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911-satire","category-constitution-humor","category-faux-controversies","category-harry-reid","category-new-york-politics","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-religious-satire","tag-burlington-coat-factory","tag-constitution-verse","tag-cordoba-house","tag-first-amendment","tag-ground-zero","tag-harry-reid","tag-islamic-center","tag-mosque-limerick","tag-new-york-city","tag-nine-eleven","tag-religious-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","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=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}