{"id":5131,"date":"2011-06-09T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2011-06-09T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T23:17:12","slug":"newt-gingrich-staff-quits-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/06\/09\/newt-gingrich-staff-quits-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Newt Gingrich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limerick Ode To Newt Gingrich<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some news that inspires a laugh:<br \/>\nNewt Gingrich has lost his main staff.<br \/>\nThey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/gingrich-senior-aides-resign\/2011\/06\/09\/AGN77VNH_blog.html\">quit him en masse.<\/a><br \/>\n(Do they think him an ass?)<br \/>\nNewt&#8217;s so peeved, he may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1995\/01\/19\/us\/gingrich-s-piggies-poked.html\">shoot a giraffe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Was my &#8220;giraffe&#8221; reference too obscure? For those who don&#8217;t know what it refers to, just follow the link in the last line of my limerick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limerick Ode To Newt Gingrich By Madeleine Begun Kane Here&#8217;s some news that inspires a laugh: Newt Gingrich has lost his main staff. They quit him en masse. (Do they think him an ass?) Newt&#8217;s so peeved, he may shoot a giraffe. UPDATE: Was my &#8220;giraffe&#8221; reference too obscure? For those who don&#8217;t know what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,519,6],"tags":[192,194,1611,729,347,702],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","tag-campaign-satire","tag-election-humor","tag-giraffe-hunting","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-presidential-campaign-humor","tag-republicans-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","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=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}