{"id":4347,"date":"2011-01-19T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T03:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2011-03-31T00:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:54:59","slug":"lieberman-retirement-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/01\/19\/lieberman-retirement-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Joementum In the Right Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has announced that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/19\/nyregion\/19lieberman.html\">won&#8217;t be running for a 5th term.<\/a> And that means I won&#8217;t have Joe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/12\/05\/lieberman-filibuster\/\">Lieberman<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/10\/29\/lieberman-health-reform\/\">kick<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/11\/07\/ode-to-traitor-joe-lieberman\/\">around<\/a> much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/09\/23\/hello-world\/\">longer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest Joe Lieberman limerick and haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Joementum In the Right Direction<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Joe, glad to hear that you&#8217;re leaving.<br \/>\nThis Democrat sure won&#8217;t be grieving.<br \/>\nI know you&#8217;ve no shame,<br \/>\nSo you won&#8217;t accept blame<br \/>\nFor aiding the right in their thieving.<\/p>\n<p><center>****************<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never tire<br \/>\nOf the phrase &#8220;Joe Lieberman<br \/>\nIs retiring.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has announced that he won&#8217;t be running for a 5th term. And that means I won&#8217;t have Joe Lieberman to kick around much longer. That brings me to my latest Joe Lieberman limerick and haiku: Finally, Joementum In the Right Direction By Madeleine Begun Kane Dear Joe, glad to hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,71,6,7,3,1551,12],"tags":[722,2765],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-satire","category-joe-lieberman","category-political-haiku","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-publicity-hounds","category-senate","tag-connecticut","tag-joe-lieberman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","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=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}