{"id":6633,"date":"2012-02-24T20:46:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2012-02-24T20:46:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:46:49","slug":"mitt-romneys-taxing-crowd-numbers-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/02\/24\/mitt-romneys-taxing-crowd-numbers-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney&#8217;s Taxing Crowd Numbers (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine giving a speech in a stadium meant to hold 65,000 people.  Now imagine only <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/02\/mitt-romneys-ford-field-fumble\/\">1,200 people showing up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see what that looks like, check out this photo of <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/02\/24\/432150\/romney-versus-obama-speec\/\">Mitt Romney&#8217;s speech in Detroit&#8217;s Ford Stadium.<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mitt Romney is holding an event at Ford Stadium which has failed to attract enough people to come even close to filling it up (in fact, you could fit Romney\u2019s 1,200 person crowd in the 65,000-seat stadium 54 times over). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mitt Romney&#8217;s Taxing Crowd Numbers (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Just twelve-hundred folks in a place<br \/>\nMeant for sixty-five-thousand. Bare space!<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s Mitt in Detroit:<br \/>\nRomney&#8217;s team ain&#8217;t adroit,<br \/>\nAnd poor Mitt has a very small base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine giving a speech in a stadium meant to hold 65,000 people. Now imagine only 1,200 people showing up. If you want to see what that looks like, check out this photo of Mitt Romney&#8217;s speech in Detroit&#8217;s Ford Stadium. Mitt Romney is holding an event at Ford Stadium which has failed to attract enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[1849,2786,1041,2764,1848,1601,1250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633"}],"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=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}