{"id":7230,"date":"2012-05-28T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2012-05-28T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T21:00:57","slug":"ed-klein-amateur-hit-job-obama-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/05\/28\/ed-klein-amateur-hit-job-obama-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To An Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a sad day when highly respected LBJ biographer Robert Caro loses his number one <em>New York Times<\/em> non-fiction slot to his polar opposite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/2012\/05\/ed-kleins-obama-bio-knocks-caro-from-on-times-list-124515.html\">hit job &#8220;author&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/17\/books\/edward-kleins-invective-laden-obama-book.html\">Edward Klein.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To An Amateur<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Amateur, hit job and whine<br \/>\nOn Obama by error-prone Klein,<br \/>\nHas slimed up to first<br \/>\nOn the Times list &#8212; we\u2019re cursed:<br \/>\nPublic taste for the facts on decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a sad day when highly respected LBJ biographer Robert Caro loses his number one New York Times non-fiction slot to his polar opposite: hit job &#8220;author&#8221; Edward Klein. Limerick Ode To An Amateur By Madeleine Begun Kane The Amateur, hit job and whine On Obama by error-prone Klein, Has slimed up to first On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,20,113,6,7,3,9],"tags":[1985,2792,1986,1984,1983,1982,1988,209,2797,1987],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230"}],"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=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7242,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}