{"id":651,"date":"2009-02-18T16:47:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=651"},"modified":"2009-02-18T18:59:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T22:59:56","slug":"ode-to-roland-burris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/02\/18\/ode-to-roland-burris\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Roland Burris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The (I hope) soon-to-be-ex-Senator Roland Burris is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/americandebate\/The_word_weasel.html\">quite the word weasel<\/a>, isn&#8217;t he? So I thought I&#8217;d join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/02\/18\/burris.blagojevich\/\">calls for his<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/18\/AR2009021802475.html\">resignation<\/a> with my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To Roland Burris<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Roland, you ought to resign,<br \/>\nAnd impeachment&#8217;s your due, so don&#8217;t whine.<br \/>\nBut the news ain&#8217;t all bad:<br \/>\nThough you lied, you can add<br \/>\nYour short Senator stint to your shrine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The (I hope) soon-to-be-ex-Senator Roland Burris is quite the word weasel, isn&#8217;t he? So I thought I&#8217;d join the calls for his resignation with my latest limerick: Ode To Roland Burris By Madeleine Begun Kane Dear Roland, you ought to resign, And impeachment&#8217;s your due, so don&#8217;t whine. But the news ain&#8217;t all bad: Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,81,91,2,168,6,7,3,12,467],"tags":[498,500,229,499,493,2748,314,496,497,494,491,501,495,492],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-democrats-satire","category-impeachment-humor","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-senate","category-washington","tag-chicago","tag-congress-satire","tag-democrats","tag-illinois","tag-impeachment","tag-law","tag-liars","tag-memorials","tag-news","tag-resignation","tag-roland-burris","tag-senate-humor","tag-shrine","tag-weasels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}