{"id":5181,"date":"2011-06-21T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T21:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2011-06-21T17:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T21:25:22","slug":"jon-huntsman-presidential-campaign-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/06\/21\/jon-huntsman-presidential-campaign-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsman On The Hunt For The White House &#8230; And A Good Speller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2011\/06\/huntsman-campaign-launch-begins-day-with-misspelling-of-his-own-name.html\">Jon Huntsman campaign launch blooper<\/a> tickled me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every detail of Jon Huntsman\u2019s long-awaited campaign launch was meticulously planned, except of course for one minor detail: the misspelling of the candidate\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the media were handed a press pass that read \u201cJohn Huntsman for President&#8221;  &#8212; adding an unnecessary H in the candidate&#8217;s first name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huntsman On The Hunt For The White House &#8230; And A Good Speller<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>My task here &#8212; to track the inane,<br \/>\nLike this flub in Jon Huntsman&#8217;s campaign:<br \/>\nA press pass mistake &#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;Jon&#8221; spelled &#8220;John&#8221; takes the cake<br \/>\nAt a prez campaign launch speech. Insane!<\/p>\n<p>     ***********<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted to have several of my limericks featured at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/06\/20\/985947\/-Vox-Frustrati-(Vol-5-):-More-Limericks?via=blog_796621\">Vox Frustati<\/a> over at the Daily Kos. The fellow who does the reading has a wonderful voice and delivery, and there&#8217;s a transcript so you can read along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Jon Huntsman campaign launch blooper tickled me: Every detail of Jon Huntsman\u2019s long-awaited campaign launch was meticulously planned, except of course for one minor detail: the misspelling of the candidate\u2019s name. Members of the media were handed a press pass that read \u201cJohn Huntsman for President&#8221; &#8212; adding an unnecessary H in the candidate&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,1607,98,9],"tags":[192,194,2900,347,702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181"}],"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=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5188,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions\/5188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}