{"id":9010,"date":"2013-02-03T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9010"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T20:32:30","slug":"rick-perry-boy-scouts-gays-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/02\/03\/rick-perry-boy-scouts-gays-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Scout Perry&#8217;s Bald Wingnut Pander (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Rick Perry, whose reputation hasn&#8217;t recovered from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/category\/rick-perry\/\">presidential campaign debacle<\/a>, is trying to bolster his right-wing cred with an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/03\/us\/rick-perry-opposes-opening-boy-scouts-to-gays.html\"> attack on gays.<\/a> Perry, an Eagle Scout, &#8220;said emphatically Saturday that the Boy Scouts of America should not soften its strict policy barring gay members, and dismissed the idea of bending the organization to the whims of &#8216;popular culture.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eagle Scout Perry&#8217;s Bald Wingnut Pander (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A new policy may be conferred<br \/>\nBy the Boy Scouts. At least, that&#8217;s the word.<br \/>\nBut Eagle Scout Rick<br \/>\nThinks this change would be sick:<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d keep flipping gay Boy Scouts the bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Rick Perry, whose reputation hasn&#8217;t recovered from his presidential campaign debacle, is trying to bolster his right-wing cred with an attack on gays. Perry, an Eagle Scout, &#8220;said emphatically Saturday that the Boy Scouts of America should not soften its strict policy barring gay members, and dismissed the idea of bending the organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,640,20,6,7,3,9,635,611],"tags":[1693,2270,2271,2846,2751,702,2845,2844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010"}],"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=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9018,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/9018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}