{"id":4822,"date":"2011-04-06T05:37:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T09:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2011-04-06T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T19:56:16","slug":"radical-budget-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/04\/06\/radical-budget-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Budget Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think I could do it.  But I&#8217;ve summed up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/paul_ryans_budget_in_summary\/2011\/03\/28\/AFnwrZkC_blog.html\">Republicans&#8217; radical (Paul Ryan-authored) budget plan<\/a> in a single haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Republican plan:<br \/>\nEnd entitlements, send wealth<br \/>\nto entitled rich.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Prompted by a poetry site to include this trio of words in a poem (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.threewordwednesday.com\/2011\/04\/3ww-ccxxxv.html\">adamant, fabricate, peculiar<\/a>) I challenged myself to fit them all into a single haiku: <\/p>\n<p>Republican pols &#8212;<br \/>\npeculiarly adamant<br \/>\nfabricators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think I could do it. But I&#8217;ve summed up the Republicans&#8217; radical (Paul Ryan-authored) budget plan in a single haiku: Republican plan: End entitlements, send wealth to entitled rich. ***** UPDATE: Prompted by a poetry site to include this trio of words in a poem (adamant, fabricate, peculiar) I challenged myself to fit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,114,20,11,1481,71,6,7,3,9,69],"tags":[1516,390,1558,396,1508,1557],"class_list":["post-4822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-humor","category-fiscal-policy","category-gop-humor","category-legislation","category-paul-ryan","category-political-haiku","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-wingnuts","tag-budget-cuts","tag-economy-satire","tag-entitlements","tag-fiscal-crisis","tag-political-haiku-senryu","tag-republican-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822","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=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}