{"id":807,"date":"2009-03-20T15:32:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=807"},"modified":"2009-03-20T15:32:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T19:32:27","slug":"easily-offended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/03\/20\/easily-offended\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To The Easily Offended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama was witty and entertaining on last night&#8217;s Leno appearance, and what&#8217;s the upshot? He&#8217;s forced to apologize for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2009\/03\/19\/2009-03-19_president_obama_sorry_for_insensitive_sp.html\">self-deprecating, throwaway line comparing his bowling performance to the Special Olympics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama sure is lucky he didn&#8217;t compare his basketball prowess to that of short people.  Otherwise, I might have to sue him.<\/p>\n<p>This calls for a limerick, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Ode To The Easily Offended<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>There are people quite readily stressed<br \/>\nAnd appalled by the innocent jest.<br \/>\nOur problems are great,<br \/>\nYet they&#8217;re often irate<br \/>\nOver nonsense. Is umbrage their quest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama was witty and entertaining on last night&#8217;s Leno appearance, and what&#8217;s the upshot? He&#8217;s forced to apologize for a self-deprecating, throwaway line comparing his bowling performance to the Special Olympics. Obama sure is lucky he didn&#8217;t compare his basketball prowess to that of short people. Otherwise, I might have to sue him. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,54,26,150,6,7,3,576],"tags":[570,568,567,566,204,200,572,571,575,569,577,573,220,574],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-entertainment-humor","category-media-satire","category-political-jokes-one-liners","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-television-tv-satire","tag-basketball","tag-bowling","tag-joke","tag-leno","tag-media","tag-obama","tag-offense","tag-political-correctness","tag-priorities","tag-special-olympics","tag-sports","tag-talk-show","tag-television","tag-tonight-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}