{"id":6028,"date":"2011-12-28T20:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2011-12-28T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:03:47","slug":"limerick-ode-to-jon-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/12\/28\/limerick-ode-to-jon-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Jon Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the left blogosphere honors our friend, the late, lamented Jon Swift a\/k\/a Al Weisel by gathering a self-selected group of political blog posts from all over the liberal blogosphere. You can find this year&#8217;s group of posts here: <a href=\"http:\/\/vagabondscholar.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/jon-swift-memorial-roundup-2011.html\">Jon Swift Memorial Roundup 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the limerick I wrote in his honor when I learned of his death back in March 2010:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Jon Swift<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A Swiftian journo named Jon<br \/>\nWas brilliant, but sadly is gone.<br \/>\nHis wit will be missed<br \/>\nCuz none could resist<br \/>\nThe posts in his humor salon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the left blogosphere honors our friend, the late, lamented Jon Swift a\/k\/a Al Weisel by gathering a self-selected group of political blog posts from all over the liberal blogosphere. You can find this year&#8217;s group of posts here: Jon Swift Memorial Roundup 2011. And here&#8217;s the limerick I wrote in his honor when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[1744,2833,1743,405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028"}],"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=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6035,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}