{"id":4225,"date":"2011-02-12T17:50:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T21:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2011-02-13T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T21:21:36","slug":"political-haiku-senryu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/02\/12\/political-haiku-senryu\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Haiku Quintet (Updated to Add Egypt Haiku)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m posting four political haiku which, I fear, are all more cynical than witty. (I&#8217;ve added a 5th about Egypt&#8217;s revolution which is uplifting, rather than cynical.) <\/p>\n<p>Technically each of these is a senryu, though most people would label them haiku. What the heck&#8217;s a senryu, and how does it differ from haiku?   I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/12\/20\/haiku-senryu-limerick\/\">explain it all here<\/a> and, believe it or not, use a three-verse limerick to illustrate the distinctions.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians strive<br \/>\nto make a good impression<br \/>\nwithout doing good.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>The economy&#8217;s<br \/>\neither looking up or down.<br \/>\nDepends on your stance.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Commenters bicker,<br \/>\nthrusting political barbs,<br \/>\nchanging no one&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>How did we get here?<br \/>\n&#8220;Pragmatic&#8221; subjugation<br \/>\nof our Dem ideals.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>A revolution<br \/>\nIn Egypt transforms, uplifts,<br \/>\nGiving hope to all.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m posting four political haiku which, I fear, are all more cynical than witty. (I&#8217;ve added a 5th about Egypt&#8217;s revolution which is uplifting, rather than cynical.) Technically each of these is a senryu, though most people would label them haiku. What the heck&#8217;s a senryu, and how does it differ from haiku? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,44,1188,5,154,71,7,3],"tags":[1509,1507,1510,1508,1505,1506],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-economy-humor","category-money-and-finance-humor","category-news-haiku","category-political-commentary","category-political-haiku","category-political-verse","category-politics","tag-blog-commenters","tag-economy-haiku","tag-egypt-revolution-haiku","tag-political-haiku-senryu","tag-political-senryu","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","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=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4537,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}