{"id":7729,"date":"2012-08-21T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7729"},"modified":"2012-08-21T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T21:54:00","slug":"platitudes-and-platforms-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/08\/21\/platitudes-and-platforms-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Platitudes And Platforms (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Republicans: If your Platform Committee is going to endorse an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0812\/79945.html\">abortion plank<\/a> that includes no exemptions for rape, incest or even to save the life of the mother,&#8221; why bother <a href=\"http:\/\/atr.rollcall.com\/todd-akin-staying-put-as-top-missouri-republicans-tell-him-to-exit\/\">condemning Todd Akin&#8217;s outrageous rape<\/a> comments?<\/p>\n<p>Were you hoping we wouldn&#8217;t notice that your platform is just as misogynous as the guy you&#8217;re condemning?<\/p>\n<p>Platitudes And Platforms (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The GOP Platform Committee<br \/>\nRe abortion is lacking in pity<br \/>\nFor victims of rape<br \/>\nAnd of incest: They ape<br \/>\nAkin&#8217;s attitude: Irony city!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Republicans: If your Platform Committee is going to endorse an &#8220;abortion plank that includes no exemptions for rape, incest or even to save the life of the mother,&#8221; why bother condemning Todd Akin&#8217;s outrageous rape comments? Were you hoping we wouldn&#8217;t notice that your platform is just as misogynous as the guy you&#8217;re condemning? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,72,21,121,20,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2823,2801,839,2061,1807,2062,938,1294,702,2060],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729"}],"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=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7745,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions\/7745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}