{"id":7168,"date":"2012-05-18T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2012-05-18T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T23:38:11","slug":"poking-a-hole-in-romneys-odds-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/05\/18\/poking-a-hole-in-romneys-odds-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Poking a Hole In Romney&#8217;s Odds (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bracing historical factoid:  The last man to be elected U.S. president despite losing both his home and birth states was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/for-mitt-romney-a-high-historical-hurdle\/2012\/05\/18\/gIQA92E9YU_blog.html\">President James Knox Polk back in 1844. <\/a> Why&#8217;s it bracing? Because  Mitt Romney is very likely to lose  his native state (Michigan) and home state (Massachusetts.)<\/p>\n<p>Poking a Hole In Romney&#8217;s Odds (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney is likely to lose<br \/>\nHis birth and his home states. Great news,<br \/>\nBecause history says<br \/>\nThat for Mitt to be prez<br \/>\nHe needs one of those states &#8230; or Polk&#8217;s shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bracing historical factoid: The last man to be elected U.S. president despite losing both his home and birth states was President James Knox Polk back in 1844. Why&#8217;s it bracing? Because Mitt Romney is very likely to lose his native state (Michigan) and home state (Massachusetts.) Poking a Hole In Romney&#8217;s Odds (Limerick) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,126,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[2786,2764,1969,857,1601,1250,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168"}],"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=7168"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7176,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}