{"id":5825,"date":"2011-11-30T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2011-11-30T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:50:09","slug":"rick-perry-gaffe-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/11\/30\/rick-perry-gaffe-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Gaffe-Prone Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Rick Perry&#8217;s apparent drive to make George W. Bush look like a genius, Perry&#8217;s been entertainingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/post\/rick-perry-gets-us-voting-age-wrong-in-new-hampshire\/2011\/11\/29\/gIQAlMOM9N_blog.html\">gaffe-prone<\/a> this week. While campaigning in New Hampshire, Perry managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/11\/29\/377882\/once-again-betraying-ignorance-of-the-constitution-rick-perry-gets-the-voting-age-wrong\/\">screw up both the voting eligibility age <\/a>and the date of Election Day 2012. The next day, Perry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/post\/perry-dismisses-gaffes-on-fox-show-making-more-in-the-process\/2011\/11\/30\/gIQAaY3xCO_blog.html\">dismissed these errors<\/a> as proving he was human. He went on to further prove his humanness with a reference to New Hampshire&#8217;s non-existent caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Gaffe-Prone Perry<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun<\/p>\n<p>Dear Rick, I don&#8217;t wish to be mean,<br \/>\nBut the age one can vote is eighteen.<br \/>\nWhere&#8217;d you get twenty-one?<br \/>\nAnd Election Day, hon,<br \/>\nIs the 6th, as most pre-teens could glean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Rick Perry&#8217;s apparent drive to make George W. Bush look like a genius, Perry&#8217;s been entertainingly gaffe-prone this week. While campaigning in New Hampshire, Perry managed to screw up both the voting eligibility age and the date of Election Day 2012. The next day, Perry dismissed these errors as proving he was human. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,8,20,6,7,3,9,1221],"tags":[192,230,1710,194,1435,401,315,1357,2845,1709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825"}],"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=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5838,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}