{"id":8940,"date":"2013-01-15T16:13:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2013-01-15T17:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T21:54:45","slug":"the-nra-plays-games-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/01\/15\/the-nra-plays-games-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"The NRA Plays Games (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/01\/14\/weapon-wonderland-song-parody\/\">Weapon Wonderland Song Parody<\/a>, I thought I was done with gun posts for a while.  But I guess not:<\/p>\n<p>The NRA Plays Games (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Violent video games are to blame,&#8221;<br \/>\nClaims the NRA, much to its shame.<br \/>\nThen it <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/nra-practice-range\/id584567057\/\">issues its own<\/a>,<br \/>\nMeant for kids barely grown.<br \/>\nYes, hypocrisy&#8217;s NRA&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> There&#8217;s some <a href=\"http:\/\/keller.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/15\/ps-a-little-nra-mystery\/\">speculation that the National Rifle Association may not be behind this app.<\/a>  However, thus far, the NRA hasn&#8217;t disowned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s Weapon Wonderland Song Parody, I thought I was done with gun posts for a while. But I guess not: The NRA Plays Games (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane &#8220;Violent video games are to blame,&#8221; Claims the NRA, much to its shame. Then it issues its own, Meant for kids barely grown. Yes, hypocrisy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,122,159,6,7,3],"tags":[2262,2033,2034,2036,2236,2032,522,2245,2244,2265,2264,2037,2750,1075,2263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940"}],"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=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8958,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}