{"id":7542,"date":"2012-07-28T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T21:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7542"},"modified":"2012-07-28T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T21:42:32","slug":"mitt-romney-disses-ann-dressage-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/07\/28\/mitt-romney-disses-ann-dressage-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney Dances Away From Dressage (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a healthy marriage, spouses share each other’s joys and take pride in one another’s accomplishments. For instance, imagine a married woman whose horse makes it all the way to the Olympics<\/a>. If her marriage is a good one, you’d expect her to watch and root along with her spouse.<\/p>\n

Alas, Ann Romney won’t be experiencing such loving togetherness.<\/a> Why not? Because Mitt has made his indifference quite clear, presumably for political reasons: Dressage is Ann’s thing, and he doesn’t plan to watch it.<\/p>\n

“I have to tell you, this is Ann\u2019s sport,” he said. “I\u2019m not even sure which day the sport goes on. She will get the chance to see it, I will not be watching the event…” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mitt Romney Dances Away From Dressage (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Ann’s horse in Olympic contention
\nHas been causing Mitt’s camp apprehension:
\nHe won’t watch it compete.
\nWhat a strange way to treat
\nHis fine wife. Should she skip his convention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a healthy marriage, spouses share each other’s joys and take pride in one another’s accomplishments. For instance, imagine a married woman whose horse makes it all the way to the Olympics. If her marriage is a good one, you’d expect her to watch and root along with her spouse. Alas, Ann Romney won’t be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,126,2040,6,7,3,9],"tags":[1863,2786,2045,2043,2764,2046,1250,949,1968,2048,2044,2047,577,1243],"class_list":["post-7542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-olympics-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-ann-romney","tag-campaign-humor","tag-dancing-horses","tag-dressage-limerick","tag-election-satire","tag-horse-limerick","tag-mitt-romney","tag-olympics","tag-olympics-satire","tag-political-expediency","tag-rafalca","tag-republican-convention","tag-sports","tag-traditional-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7585,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions\/7585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}