{"id":50,"date":"2006-11-05T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T20:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/11\/05\/a-convenient-noose\/"},"modified":"2006-11-05T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T20:58:32","slug":"a-convenient-noose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/11\/05\/a-convenient-noose\/","title":{"rendered":"A Convenient Noose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As SNL&#8217;s Churchlady used to say, &#8220;How con-veeeeeeee-ni-ent!&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m referring, of course, to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/05\/AR2006110500135.html?referrer=email\">Saddam Hussein death by hanging sentence,<\/a> which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.majorityrules.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/rovian-timing-of-saddam-death-penalty.html\">just happened to be announced two days before Election Day.<\/a> Uh-huh &#8230; right.<\/p>\n<p>A Convenient Noose (Haiku)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Saddam&#8217;s death sentence.<br \/>\nSerendipitous? Hardly!<br \/>\nLeave no scheme behind. [tags]Saddam Hussein, Death Penalty, Death By Hanging, Election Day Humor, SNL&#8217;s Churchlady\u00a0[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As SNL&#8217;s Churchlady used to say, &#8220;How con-veeeeeeee-ni-ent!&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m referring, of course, to the Saddam Hussein death by hanging sentence, which just happened to be announced two days before Election Day. Uh-huh &#8230; right. A Convenient Noose (Haiku) By Madeleine Begun Kane Saddam&#8217;s death sentence. Serendipitous? Hardly! Leave no scheme behind. [tags]Saddam Hussein, Death Penalty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,38,8,20,19,57,2,5,7,3,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}