{"id":4335,"date":"2011-01-10T18:59:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T22:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2011-01-10T18:59:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T22:59:52","slug":"tom-delay-sentenced-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/01\/10\/tom-delay-sentenced-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Want Tom In Prison &#8212; No Delay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Arizona shootings, there isn&#8217;t much news to celebrate in rhyme.  But I finally came up with something: Former House Majority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/politics\/entries\/2011\/01\/10\/delay_appears_in_court.html\">Tom DeLay<\/a> (R-Texas) was sentenced to three years in prison for &#8220;conspiring to launder corporate money into political donations during the 2002 elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Want Tom In Prison &#8212;  No Delay!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a glimmer of good news today:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s prison for Thomas DeLay.<br \/>\nHis sentence? Three years.<br \/>\nSo let&#8217;s hear it: Three cheers!<br \/>\nPlease no stay! Want DeLay put away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Arizona shootings, there isn&#8217;t much news to celebrate in rhyme. But I finally came up with something: Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was sentenced to three years in prison for &#8220;conspiring to launder corporate money into political donations during the 2002 elections.&#8221; That brings me to my latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,15,50,466,21,20,2,168,6,7,3,9,611],"tags":[192,2835,194,1296,1093,1474,715,1202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335"}],"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=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4343,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}