{"id":3939,"date":"2010-10-20T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2010-10-20T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T20:55:16","slug":"christine-odonnell-church-state-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/10\/20\/christine-odonnell-church-state-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Limerick Ode To Christine O&#8217;Donnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve surely heard about Delaware Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lancemannion.typepad.com\/lance_mannion\/2010\/10\/theirs-is-the-lord-our-god-we-are-to-worship-no-other-gods-before-theirs.html\">astonishing screw-up<\/a> in her debate against opponent Chris Coons.  I&#8217;m speaking, of course, of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=130671265\">First Amendment gaffe<\/a>.  In her now infamous exchange (in a law school, yet) Tea-Partier O&#8217;Donnell &#8220;appeared to be aggressively ignorant of the fact that the First Amendment requires the separation of church and state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest Limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Yet Another Limerick Ode To Christine O&#8217;Donnell<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Debating our Fed Constitution<br \/>\nCan be tough when your grasp&#8217;s Lilliputian:<br \/>\nHence O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s conflation<br \/>\nOf church and our nation.<br \/>\nHer savvy could use evolution.<\/p>\n<p>(Here&#8217;s my previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/10\/11\/limerick-ode-to-christine-odonnell\/\">limerick about Christine O&#8217;Donnell<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve surely heard about Delaware Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s astonishing screw-up in her debate against opponent Chris Coons. I&#8217;m speaking, of course, of her First Amendment gaffe. In her now infamous exchange (in a law school, yet) Tea-Partier O&#8217;Donnell &#8220;appeared to be aggressively ignorant of the fact that the First Amendment requires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,1398,25,124,21,2,168,6,7,3,152,9,12,1119,69],"tags":[192,1433,2884,1434,325,1416,194,1088,1435,1053,1075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939"}],"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=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}