{"id":63,"date":"2006-12-06T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T21:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/12\/06\/ode-to-diminished-expectations-limerick\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T21:39:11","slug":"ode-to-diminished-expectations-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/12\/06\/ode-to-diminished-expectations-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Diminished Expectations (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ode To Diminished Expectations<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/05\/AR2006120501239.html\">Unanimous yeses for Gates<\/a>,<br \/>\nCause it&#8217;s clear that he has what it takes<br \/>\nTo be better than Rummy.<br \/>\nHe isn&#8217;t a dummy!!!<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s life in our Bush-induced straits.<br \/>\n[tags]Bob Gates Satire, Robert Gates, Confirmation Humor,\u00a0Defense Secretary, Senate Armed Services Committee[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode To Diminished Expectations By Madeleine Begun Kane Unanimous yeses for Gates, Cause it&#8217;s clear that he has what it takes To be better than Rummy. He isn&#8217;t a dummy!!! That&#8217;s life in our Bush-induced straits. [tags]Bob Gates Satire, Robert Gates, Confirmation Humor,\u00a0Defense Secretary, Senate Armed Services Committee[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15,38,8,20,19,6,7,3,9,18,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-gates","category-congress","category-foreign-policy","category-george-bush","category-gop-humor","category-iraq-war","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-rumsfeld","category-senate","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}