{"id":8055,"date":"2012-10-01T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8055"},"modified":"2012-10-01T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T21:23:06","slug":"us-supreme-court-appointments-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/10\/01\/us-supreme-court-appointments-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Courting Votes (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/race-gay-marriage-voting-rights-on-tap-in-new-supreme-court-term-starting-monday\/2012\/10\/01\/a2ef0120-0b99-11e2-97a7-45c05ef136b2_story.html\">First Monday in October<\/a>, which means the U.S. Supreme Court is back in session. A court, I might add, that&#8217;s packed with aging Justices, who could very well retire in the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>Courting  Votes (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is back in DC&#8212;<br \/>\nA reminder that voting is key.<br \/>\nJust imagine the blight:<br \/>\nA court swing further right&#8212;<br \/>\nForty-seven percenter debris.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: In a Facebook discussion of my limerick, someone suggested that smoking weed might improve the Justices&#8217; ability to render good decisions.  So naturally, I had to write this:<\/p>\n<p>The Justices need to be stoned &#8212;<br \/>\nNot with rocks, of course.  Cannabis-zoned.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d make better decisions<br \/>\nAnd fewer provisions<br \/>\nWherein stare decisis is boned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the First Monday in October, which means the U.S. Supreme Court is back in session. A court, I might add, that&#8217;s packed with aging Justices, who could very well retire in the next four years. Courting Votes (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane The Supreme Court is back in DC&#8212; A reminder that voting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,21,20,10,168,126,6,7,3,9,13,17],"tags":[2087,2792,2786,2103,2099,2764,1226,1093,2101,1250,1911,2100,377,2102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055"}],"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=8055"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}