{"id":5384,"date":"2011-08-17T01:17:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T05:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2011-08-17T01:17:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T05:17:39","slug":"limerick-ode-to-rick-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/08\/17\/limerick-ode-to-rick-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Rick Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Rick Perry has sure had a busy few days.  Not only has he thrown himself into the Republican presidential contest, but he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal\/2011_08\/perry_does_the_white_house_a_f031579.php\">threatened Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke with violence<\/a> and accused him of treason.  And let&#8217;s not forget this beaut: Perry implied that President Obama isn&#8217;t &#8220;in love&#8221; with America.  That&#8217;s pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/joan_walsh\/politics\/2011\/08\/15\/rick_perry_nerve\">nervy<\/a>, coming from a fellow who&#8217;s touted Texas secession.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Rick Perry<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Perry, to threaten the Fed<br \/>\nWith vi&#8217;lence ain&#8217;t good for your cred.<br \/>\nAnd throwing around<br \/>\nThe word <em>treason<\/em> ain&#8217;t sound<br \/>\nFor secession proponents. &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Rick Perry has sure had a busy few days. Not only has he thrown himself into the Republican presidential contest, but he&#8217;s threatened Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke with violence and accused him of treason. And let&#8217;s not forget this beaut: Perry implied that President Obama isn&#8217;t &#8220;in love&#8221; with America. That&#8217;s pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,179,72,21,159,6,7,3,635,611,17],"tags":[2792,2821,192,194,2798,1552,240,2845,636,231,358],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-ben-bernanke","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-rick-perry","category-texas-humor","category-white-house","tag-barack-obama","tag-ben-bernanke","tag-campaign-satire","tag-election-humor","tag-federal-reserve","tag-politics-satire","tag-presidential-election","tag-rick-perry","tag-secession","tag-traitors","tag-treason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","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=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}