{"id":7762,"date":"2012-09-02T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2012-09-02T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:02:32","slug":"mitt-romney-global-warming-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/09\/02\/mitt-romney-global-warming-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Oceans Aren&#8217;t Risible (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That Romney sure has quite the <a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/31\/13595053-rising-sea-levels-arent-funny\">sense of humor.<\/a> Here&#8217;s an example of his convention speech wit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rising Oceans Aren&#8217;t Risible (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The sea level&#8217;s rising, but Mitt<br \/>\nTreats that danger as grist for his wit:<br \/>\nMocks a serious threat<br \/>\nWith a joke that&#8217;s all wet&#8212;<br \/>\nA GOP cheer-swelling hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Romney sure has quite the sense of humor. Here&#8217;s an example of his convention speech wit: &#8220;President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family.&#8221; Rising Oceans Aren&#8217;t Risible (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane The sea level&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,21,1314,62,20,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2792,2786,2764,1315,2780,1250,2064,2065,2047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762"}],"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=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7779,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions\/7779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}