{"id":8783,"date":"2012-12-14T19:34:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T23:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8783"},"modified":"2012-12-15T06:09:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T10:09:58","slug":"newtown-school-shootings-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/12\/14\/newtown-school-shootings-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Massacre Message (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write a serious limerick about gun violence for a long time. Today&#8217;s tragic <a href=\"http:\/\/connecticut.cbslocal.com\/2012\/12\/14\/school-shooting-leaves-multiple-injured\/\">Newtown Connecticut school shooting<\/a> prompted this verse:<\/p>\n<p>Massacre Message (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Mindless murder and mayhem in schools.<br \/>\nU.S. mall assaults &#8212; gun wielding ghouls.<br \/>\nWe seek a solution,<br \/>\nBut hear: &#8220;Constitution!&#8221;<br \/>\nWe need leaders &#8212; <strong>not<\/strong> NRA tools!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write a serious limerick about gun violence for a long time. Today&#8217;s tragic Newtown Connecticut school shooting prompted this verse: Massacre Message (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Mindless murder and mayhem in schools. U.S. mall assaults &#8212; gun wielding ghouls. We seek a solution, But hear: &#8220;Constitution!&#8221; We need leaders &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,122,6,7,3],"tags":[2237,2039,2033,2034,2036,2236,2032,2870,2235,2238,2037,1075],"class_list":["post-8783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution-humor","category-firearms-guns-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","tag-adam-lanza","tag-cowardly-politicians","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-laws","tag-gun-lobby","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-leadership-humor","tag-newtown-connecticut-school-shootings","tag-sandy-hook","tag-second-amendment","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783","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=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}