{"id":5936,"date":"2011-12-11T19:26:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T23:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2011-12-11T19:26:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T23:26:22","slug":"romney-ten-thousand-dollar-bet-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/12\/11\/romney-ten-thousand-dollar-bet-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt’s Losing Bet (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of Mitt Romney’s misplaced $10,000 bet<\/a>, the “Intrade political futures market <\/a>shows Mitt Romney’s chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination dropping to 40% today, while Newt Gingrich’s chances have surged to 37%.”<\/p>\n

Mitt’s Losing Bet (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Mitt’s ten-thousand dollar faux pas
\nMakes Republican voters say, “Bah!”
\nSo betting is strong
\nThat Romney’s gone wrong,
\nAnd that Newt will get voters’ “Hurrah!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of Mitt Romney’s misplaced $10,000 bet, the “Intrade political futures market shows Mitt Romney’s chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination dropping to 40% today, while Newt Gingrich’s chances have surged to 37%.” Mitt’s Losing Bet (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Mitt’s ten-thousand dollar faux pas Makes Republican voters say, “Bah!” So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,124,21,20,126,519,6,7,3,9],"tags":[1724,192,325,194,2763,1250,729,395,702],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-debate-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-10000-bet","tag-campaign-satire","tag-debate-limerick","tag-election-humor","tag-gop-humor","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-presidential-debate","tag-republicans-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","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=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}