{"id":7212,"date":"2012-05-25T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T22:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2012-05-25T18:51:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T22:51:42","slug":"student-loan-rates-filibuster-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/05\/25\/student-loan-rates-filibuster-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Memo To Republican Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memo To Republican Parents of College-Age Children: When <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/05\/24\/490163\/republicans-filibuster-student-loan\/\">federal student loan rates double<\/a> this July, you&#8217;ll only have yourselves to blame:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Republicans filibustered a bill to extend the current interest rate on federal student loans, blocking an extension from moving forward by a vote of 51-43 (with 60 votes needed to advance the bill). They blocked a similar effort earlier this month. Without an extension, interest rates will double in July from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Memo To Republican Parents<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Republicans live in a bubble,<br \/>\nUntroubled that loan rates will double:<br \/>\nThey repeatedly block<br \/>\nA Dem bill that would lock<br \/>\nIn low rates, treating students like rubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memo To Republican Parents of College-Age Children: When federal student loan rates double this July, you&#8217;ll only have yourselves to blame: Senate Republicans filibustered a bill to extend the current interest rate on federal student loans, blocking an extension from moving forward by a vote of 51-43 (with 60 votes needed to advance the bill). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[885,89,20,1193,6,7,3,9,1940],"tags":[1979,1981,2791,1980,702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212"}],"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=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7229,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions\/7229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}