{"id":5779,"date":"2011-11-23T17:03:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2011-11-23T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:04:29","slug":"a-turkey-of-a-term-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/11\/23\/a-turkey-of-a-term-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"A Turkey Of A Term (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Thanksgiving, here&#8217;s one turkey of a term:<\/p>\n<p>A Turkey Of A Term (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The term of the day has no charm,<br \/>\nAnd for some it can cause some alarm.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a spot in the gov<br \/>\nFilled with patronage love.<br \/>\nHave you guessed what I mean? <a href=\"http:\/\/politicaldictionary.com\/words\/turkey-farm\/\">&#8220;Turkey Farm.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: According to Taegan Goddard&#8217;s Political Dictionary, a  <a href=\"http:\/\/politicaldictionary.com\/words\/turkey-farm\/\">&#8220;Turkey Farm&#8221;<\/a> is a &#8220;government agency or department staffed primarily with political appointments and other patronage hires.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Thanksgiving, here&#8217;s one turkey of a term: A Turkey Of A Term (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane The term of the day has no charm, And for some it can cause some alarm. It&#8217;s a spot in the gov Filled with patronage love. Have you guessed what I mean? &#8220;Turkey Farm.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1471,6,7,3],"tags":[1352,1701,1702,1700,1697,1431,1699,1698],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","tag-holiday-verse","tag-patronage-hires","tag-political-dictionary","tag-political-patronage","tag-political-terms","tag-taegan-goddard","tag-thanksgiving","tag-turkey-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","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=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5787,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}