{"id":8551,"date":"2012-11-17T18:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T22:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8551"},"modified":"2012-11-17T18:38:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T22:38:33","slug":"romney-sinking-ship-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/11\/17\/romney-sinking-ship-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney&#8217;s Sunken Ship Blues (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that I shouldn&#8217;t indulge in Schadenfreude, but I can&#8217;t help myself: Watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2012\/11\/16\/gingrich_lacerates_romney_over_why_he_lost.html\">Republican rats<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/bensmith\/why-republicans-want-to-make-mitt-romney-go-away\">desert Mitt Romney&#8217;s sinking ship<\/a> is immensely entertaining! And in my defense, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/17\/opinion\/collins-anybody-notice-a-pattern.html\">Gail Collins<\/a> seems to be enjoying it too.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney&#8217;s Sunken Ship Blues (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney is now on the outs.<br \/>\nHaving lost in a rout, Romney pouts,<br \/>\nMaking whiny remarks,<br \/>\nGiving GOP sharks<br \/>\nAn excuse for disownership shouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that I shouldn&#8217;t indulge in Schadenfreude, but I can&#8217;t help myself: Watching the Republican rats desert Mitt Romney&#8217;s sinking ship is immensely entertaining! And in my defense, Gail Collins seems to be enjoying it too. Mitt Romney&#8217;s Sunken Ship Blues (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Mitt Romney is now on the outs. Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,21,20,1937,126,519,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[2792,2837,2764,211,2763,2915,729,240,702,1989],"class_list":["post-8551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-marco-rubio","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","tag-barack-obama","tag-bobby-jindal","tag-election-satire","tag-gail-collins","tag-gop-humor","tag-marco-rubio","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-presidential-election","tag-republicans-humor","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551","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=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}