{"id":6036,"date":"2011-12-29T20:40:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2011-12-29T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T00:42:42","slug":"ben-nelson-retire-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/12\/29\/ben-nelson-retire-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Ben Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why would anyone, other than a Republican, lament <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/12\/28\/sen-ben-nelson-s-retirement-signals-twilight-of-blue-dog-democrats.html\">&#8220;centrist&#8221; Senator Ben Nelson&#8217;s<\/a> decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/ben-nelson-retirement-how-does-it-affect-the-senate-landscape\/2011\/12\/27\/gIQALLI2KP_blog.html\">not to run for reelection?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Ben Nelson<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Ben Nelson won&#8217;t run again. Great!<br \/>\nHe took stands that were easy to hate:<br \/>\nHelped Republicans halt<br \/>\nSenate votes.  Oy gevalt!<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s a DINO.  There&#8217;s just no debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would anyone, other than a Republican, lament &#8220;centrist&#8221; Senator Ben Nelson&#8217;s decision not to run for reelection? Limerick Ode To Ben Nelson By Madeleine Begun Kane Ben Nelson won&#8217;t run again. Great! He took stands that were easy to hate: Helped Republicans halt Senate votes. Oy gevalt! He&#8217;s a DINO. There&#8217;s just no debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[720,852,89,6,7,3,12,610],"tags":[2851,981,1745,1132,194,2791,723,1136,1342,1246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036"}],"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=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}