{"id":924,"date":"2009-04-26T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=924"},"modified":"2009-04-26T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T02:55:09","slug":"secession-did-i-say-secession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/04\/26\/secession-did-i-say-secession\/","title":{"rendered":"Secession?  Did I Say Secession?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For such a fan of secession, Texas Gov. Rick Perry sure is quick to ask for federal bucks.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fema.gov\/news\/newsrelease.fema?id=48036\">Hurricane disaster assistance?<\/a> Check. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/26\/rick-perry-after-secessio_n_191521.html\">Antiviral medications to combat swine flu?<\/a> Check. <\/p>\n<p>Now I live just two miles from the Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York <a href=\"http:\/\/nycprivateschoolsblog.com\/events\/ny-prep-school-st-francis-in-the-news\/04\/26\/2009\/\">swine flu outbreak at St. Francis Prep School<\/a>.  And I&#8217;m all for sending swine flu meds to needy areas like Texas.  I just wish Texas didn&#8217;t have such a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/04\/19\/yet-another-ode-to-republican-hypocrisy\/\">hypocrite for a governor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Secession?  Did I Say Secession?<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>My Texas is quite independent,<br \/>\nSaid Rick Perry &#8212; secession-defendant.<br \/>\nThen he called for the feds<br \/>\nTo send anti-flu meds.<br \/>\nWith hypocrisy Perry&#8217;s resplendent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For such a fan of secession, Texas Gov. Rick Perry sure is quick to ask for federal bucks. Hurricane disaster assistance? Check. Antiviral medications to combat swine flu? Check. Now I live just two miles from the Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York swine flu outbreak at St. Francis Prep School. And I&#8217;m all for sending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,156,6,635,611],"tags":[656,660,662,657,661,655,522,282,658,2845,636,659,654,617],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-satire","category-new-york-politics","category-political-limericks","category-rick-perry","category-texas-humor","tag-antiviral-medications","tag-disaster-assistance","tag-flu-vaccine","tag-fresh-meadows","tag-health","tag-hurricane","tag-hypocrisy","tag-new-york","tag-queens","tag-rick-perry","tag-secession","tag-st-francis-prep","tag-swine-flu","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}