{"id":39,"date":"2006-10-22T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/10\/22\/dear-peggy\/"},"modified":"2006-10-22T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:01:02","slug":"dear-peggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/10\/22\/dear-peggy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Peggy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always embarrassing for me to admit this, but\u00a0Peggy Noonan and I\u00a0 went to the same high school &#8212;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/books\/2000\/0006.brock.html\">Massapequa High School on Long Island, New York.<\/a> (I didn&#8217;t know her, though. Or if I did, I don&#8217;t remember her.)<\/p>\n<p>As a sister Massapequan, I\u00a0like\u00a0to write\u00a0Peggy Noonan the occasional\u00a0poem.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s verse was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/pnoonan\/?id=110009078\">this Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal column,<\/a> as dissected by <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200610170004\">Eric Boehlert in Media Matters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Peggy<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Peg&#8217;s practicing projection<br \/>\nAs the wingnuts often do.<br \/>\nNoonan&#8217;s accusations<br \/>\nVersus Dems come right on cue.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives are civil?<br \/>\nAnd the Dems would stop dissent?<br \/>\nPeggy, it&#8217;s your allies<br \/>\nWho would discourse circumvent.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/notable01_04b.html#08_10_04\">Peggy Noonan haiku is here,<\/a> and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/notable05_03a.html#05_10_03\">post about the many famous Massapequans (Jerry Seinfeld, the Baldwin brothers, etc.) is here.<\/a>[tags]Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal, Massapequa High School, Massapequans, Media Matters, Projection, Dissent, Civil Discourse, Jerry Seinfeld, Baldwin Brothers[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always embarrassing for me to admit this, but\u00a0Peggy Noonan and I\u00a0 went to the same high school &#8212;\u00a0 Massapequa High School on Long Island, New York. (I didn&#8217;t know her, though. Or if I did, I don&#8217;t remember her.) As a sister Massapequan, I\u00a0like\u00a0to write\u00a0Peggy Noonan the occasional\u00a0poem.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s verse was inspired by this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,20,26,7,3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}