{"id":5190,"date":"2011-06-27T00:31:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T04:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2011-06-27T00:31:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T04:31:53","slug":"obama-wealthy-donors-presidential-partners-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/06\/27\/obama-wealthy-donors-presidential-partners-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Fund Raising Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-0625-obama-donors-20110625,0,1065791.story\">courting wealthy donors<\/a> with a new program called Presidential Partners &#8212; the kind of donors who can afford a $75,800 donation to the Obama Victory Fund.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The effort to court deep-pocketed backers comes amid uncertainty about whether Obama will be able to reproduce the level of small donations that were estimated to have made up about half of the $745 million he raised in the 2008 campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That brings me to this haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Prez seeks large donors.<br \/>\nSmall donors already gave<br \/>\nat the groc&#8217;ry store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has been courting wealthy donors with a new program called Presidential Partners &#8212; the kind of donors who can afford a $75,800 donation to the Obama Victory Fund. The effort to court deep-pocketed backers comes amid uncertainty about whether Obama will be able to reproduce the level of small donations that were estimated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185,95,72,21,6,17],"tags":[2792,1473,192,194,1461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190"}],"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=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5219,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}