{"id":8211,"date":"2012-10-16T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2012-10-16T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:47:08","slug":"debate-humor-obama-romney-crowley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/10\/16\/debate-humor-obama-romney-crowley\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Debate Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Debate at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, is coming up in just over three hours. I don&#8217;t know about the candidates, or Candy Crowley, the moderator, but I&#8217;m a nervous wreck.<\/p>\n<p>(On a personal note, I spent many hundreds of hours playing the oboe at Hofstra&#8217;s concert hall, which once was home base to the Nassau Symphony Orchestra.)<\/p>\n<p>Pre-Debate Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Which lies will Mitt tell us tonight,<br \/>\nWhile disguising the fact he&#8217;s far right?<br \/>\nWill the Prez call Mitt out<br \/>\nWhen he fibs in this bout?<br \/>\nHe had better.  The polls are damn tight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Debate at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, is coming up in just over three hours. I don&#8217;t know about the candidates, or Candy Crowley, the moderator, but I&#8217;m a nervous wreck. (On a personal note, I spent many hundreds of hours playing the oboe at Hofstra&#8217;s concert hall, which once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,124,21,20,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2792,2786,2125,325,2764,2126,1250,2127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211"}],"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=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8225,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}