{"id":7154,"date":"2012-05-16T18:03:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T22:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2012-05-16T18:39:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T22:39:02","slug":"george-bush-book-economic-growth-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/05\/16\/george-bush-book-economic-growth-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Say It Ain&#8217;t So (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I read a news item that sounds so crazy, I&#8217;m sure it must be from the <em>Onion<\/em>. For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/16\/us\/politics\/george-w-bush-briefly-visits-washington.html\"> instance<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two months from now, [George W. Bush] plans to publish a book outlining strategies for economic growth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please Say It Ain&#8217;t So (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>An economy book by George Dub,<br \/>\nWhose presidency was a flub:<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the news of the day,<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m sorry to say<br \/>\nThat this isn&#8217;t a joke &#8212; there&#8217;s the rub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I read a news item that sounds so crazy, I&#8217;m sure it must be from the Onion. For instance: Two months from now, [George W. Bush] plans to publish a book outlining strategies for economic growth. Please Say It Ain&#8217;t So (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane An economy book by George Dub, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,8,20,26,113,6,7,3,9,45,17],"tags":[389,390,438,401,2797,2761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154"}],"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=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7165,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}