{"id":4504,"date":"2011-02-11T17:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2011-02-11T17:50:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T21:50:30","slug":"george-bush-james-carter-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/02\/11\/george-bush-james-carter-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Clerihews (Light Verse about Bush and Carter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m experimenting with a new (to me) type of light verse: the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clerihew\">clerihew<\/a><\/em>. <em>Wikipedia<\/em> provides several examples and describes the form as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; it pokes fun at mostly famous people<\/p>\n<p>* It has four lines of irregular length (for comic effect); the third and fourth lines are usually longer than the first two<\/p>\n<p>* The rhyme structure is AABB; the subject matter and wording are often humorously contrived in order to achieve a rhyme<\/p>\n<p>*The first line consists solely (or almost solely) of the subject&#8217;s name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a pair of clerihews about two former U.S. Presidents, Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush:<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Carter,<br \/>\nEnergy martyr.<br \/>\nWarned we&#8217;d be debtors,<br \/>\nLooked lousy in sweaters.<\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush,<br \/>\nA pain in the tush.<br \/>\nLess nasty and brainy<br \/>\nThan running mate Cheney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m experimenting with a new (to me) type of light verse: the clerihew. Wikipedia provides several examples and describes the form as follows: * It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; it pokes fun at mostly famous people * It has four lines of irregular length (for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,8,1501,7,3,17],"tags":[1503,2760,2878,438,2894,1504,1064],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-humor","category-george-bush","category-political-clerihews","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house","tag-clerihews","tag-dick-cheney","tag-energy-humor","tag-george-bush-satire","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-light-verse","tag-presidential-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","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=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}