{"id":48,"date":"2006-11-01T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T18:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/11\/01\/thoughts-of-elections-past\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T18:42:31","slug":"thoughts-of-elections-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/11\/01\/thoughts-of-elections-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts Of Elections Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of poems today &#8212; more serious than usual &#8212;\u00a0 inspired by the latest attempt to swift-boat John Kerry, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/10\/31\/kerry.mccain\/\">Kerry&#8217;s finally finding his voice<\/a> in response to the Rove orchestrated attacks on him:<\/p>\n<p>When I hear Gore speak, I sigh for what could have been.<br \/>\nWhen I watch Kerry speak, I eye what should have been.<br \/>\nWhen I see Bush speak, I cry for our citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry&#8217;s mad as hell<br \/>\nAnd won&#8217;t take it anymore.<br \/>\nLate, but still welcome.<br \/>\n[tags]John Kerry, Tony Snow, Swift-Boating, Strawmen, Election, Bush Lies, Al Gore, Karl Rove[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of poems today &#8212; more serious than usual &#8212;\u00a0 inspired by the latest attempt to swift-boat John Kerry, and Kerry&#8217;s finally finding his voice in response to the Rove orchestrated attacks on him: When I hear Gore speak, I sigh for what could have been. When I watch Kerry speak, I eye what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,8,20,5,7,3,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}