{"id":8962,"date":"2013-01-22T00:41:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8962"},"modified":"2013-01-22T00:41:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:41:25","slug":"john-mccain-obama-inaugural-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/01\/22\/john-mccain-obama-inaugural-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To McCain, The Conciliator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican pols, most notably John McCain, didn&#8217;t find Obama&#8217;s second inaugural address sufficiently conciliatory. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.nytimes.com\/live-dashboard\/obama-inauguration#sha=c1c9c4acc\">McCain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere was very little reaching out to the other side,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a fine speech, but I didn\u2019t hear any conciliatory remarks. I didn\u2019t see any specific reference like, \u2018I reach out my hand to the other side of the aisle.\u2019 \u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To McCain, The Conciliator<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>As Obama&#8217;s Inaugural wraps,<br \/>\nJohn McCain now complains of a lapse:<br \/>\nJust where in the speech<br \/>\nDoes the President reach<br \/>\nCross the aisle to invite some more slaps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican pols, most notably John McCain, didn&#8217;t find Obama&#8217;s second inaugural address sufficiently conciliatory. Here&#8217;s McCain: \u201cThere was very little reaching out to the other side,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a fine speech, but I didn\u2019t hear any conciliatory remarks. I didn\u2019t see any specific reference like, \u2018I reach out my hand to the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,21,20,40,6,1120,7,3,9,17],"tags":[2792,2266,552,2773,1582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962"}],"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=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8980,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}