{"id":6515,"date":"2012-02-18T18:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6515"},"modified":"2012-02-18T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:35:35","slug":"just-in-time-for-presidents-day-would-be-presidential-clerihews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/02\/18\/just-in-time-for-presidents-day-would-be-presidential-clerihews\/","title":{"rendered":"Just In Time For Presidents Day &#8212; Would-Be Presidential Clerihews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case all those ads haven&#8217;t clued you in, Presidents Day is nearly here. To celebrate, I&#8217;ve written a pair of clerihews for would-be presidents Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.   What&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/02\/11\/george-bush-james-carter-humor\/\">clerihew?  A whimsically biographical four-line poem, more fully described here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Willard Mitt Romney<br \/>\nHas wealth that&#8217;s omni.<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;s stiff as a yoke.<br \/>\nKindly give that man a toke.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Santorum<br \/>\nLoves his forum.<br \/>\nBeing prez is his quest<br \/>\nIn a knit sweater vest.<\/p>\n<p>(My set of eight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/10\/12\/republican-debate-light-verse\/\">Eight 4-Liners For The Initial Republican Contenders is here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case all those ads haven&#8217;t clued you in, Presidents Day is nearly here. To celebrate, I&#8217;ve written a pair of clerihews for would-be presidents Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. What&#8217;s a clerihew? A whimsically biographical four-line poem, more fully described here. Willard Mitt Romney Has wealth that&#8217;s omni. But he&#8217;s stiff as a yoke. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,1471,126,1501,6,7,3,9,1221,17],"tags":[2786,2764,1827,1250,2893,1826,2877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515"}],"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=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions\/6536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}