{"id":5952,"date":"2011-12-13T07:24:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T11:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2011-12-13T07:24:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T11:24:44","slug":"newt-adultery-pledge-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/12\/13\/newt-adultery-pledge-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt&#8217;s Pledge (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confessed serial adulterer Newt Gingrich has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/burns-haberman\/2011\/12\/newt-takes-noadultery-pledge-106920.html\">taken the  Family Leader no-adultery pledge<\/a>, which includes this statement: &#8220;I also pledge to uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my spouse and respect for the marital bonds of others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the following limerick was stricken from an earlier draft:<\/p>\n<p>Newt&#8217;s Pledge (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>No adult&#8217;ry for me, pledges Newt.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve given my cheating the boot.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve confessed and repented.<br \/>\nMy soul&#8217;s reinvented.<br \/>\nAnd I can&#8217;t get it up, so it&#8217;s moot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confessed serial adulterer Newt Gingrich has taken the Family Leader no-adultery pledge, which includes this statement: &#8220;I also pledge to uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my spouse and respect for the marital bonds of others.&#8221; Apparently, the following limerick was stricken from an earlier draft: Newt&#8217;s Pledge (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,519,6,7,3,152,9],"tags":[1725,192,1569,194,1726,1234,729,1053],"class_list":["post-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-religious-satire","category-republicans","tag-adultery-humor","tag-campaign-satire","tag-defense-of-marriage-act","tag-election-humor","tag-family-leader-pledge","tag-marriage-satire","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-religion-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952","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=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5958,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}