{"id":6379,"date":"2012-02-03T19:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2012-02-03T19:41:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:41:43","slug":"newt-gingrich-trampoline-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/02\/03\/newt-gingrich-trampoline-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Newt Lunacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally figured out how Newt plans to populate the moon: He&#8217;ll catapult the poor onto the moon via trampolines.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know that sounds crazy. But I can&#8217;t think of any other explanation for this <a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/2012\/02\/02\/newt-mitt-supports-safety-nets\/\">nutty Newt quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I really believe that we should care about the very poor, unlike Governor Romney. But I believe we should care very differently from Barack Obama&#8230;.What the poor need is a trampoline so they can spring up, so I am for replacing the safety net with a trampoline.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Newt Lunacy<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The safety net&#8217;s bad, prattles Newt,<br \/>\nSuggesting we give it the boot.<br \/>\nFrom his odd bag of tricks,<br \/>\nNewt throws this in the mix:<br \/>\nTrampolines &#8212; out-of-poverty route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally figured out how Newt plans to populate the moon: He&#8217;ll catapult the poor onto the moon via trampolines. Yes, I know that sounds crazy. But I can&#8217;t think of any other explanation for this nutty Newt quote: I really believe that we should care about the very poor, unlike Governor Romney. But I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,114,20,126,519,6,7,3,9,1798,45],"tags":[2786,2764,1574,1250,1800,729,1797,1796,1801,1799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379"}],"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=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}