{"id":9261,"date":"2013-03-08T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2013-03-08T18:14:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:14:23","slug":"boehner-white-house-tours-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/03\/08\/boehner-white-house-tours-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Touring Boehner&#8217;s Brain (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner had a hissy fit over the sequester-caused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/100528529\">suspension of White House<\/a> tours.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The President is trying to make it tough on members of Congress. It&#8217;s just silly. I want to know who is being laid off at the White House. The Capitol is open for tours. We&#8217;ve been planning for this for months.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps Boehner should have spent those months planning to <strong>avoid<\/strong> sequestration. <\/p>\n<p>(Note that the transcript originally read &#8220;It&#8217;s just sick.&#8221; Then at some point,  &#8220;sick&#8221; was changed to &#8220;silly.&#8221;  Since I don&#8217;t have access to the audio, I don&#8217;t know which one is accurate.)<\/p>\n<p>Touring Boehner&#8217;s Brain (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>To save cash, White House tours are curtailed,<br \/>\nBut the House tours have NOT been derailed.<br \/>\nSo you still can have fun<br \/>\nSeeing nothing get done<br \/>\nOn the Hill, watching nonsense unveiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner had a hissy fit over the sequester-caused suspension of White House tours. &#8220;The President is trying to make it tough on members of Congress. It&#8217;s just silly. I want to know who is being laid off at the White House. The Capitol is open for tours. We&#8217;ve been planning for this for months.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,15,20,14,36,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[1516,1546,2326,701,2323,2324,2322,2769,702,2325,2307,1561,2321],"class_list":["post-9261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress","category-gop-humor","category-house","category-john-boehner","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","tag-budget-cuts","tag-budget-limerick","tag-capitol-humor","tag-congress-humor","tag-congressional-tours","tag-dc-tourism-humor","tag-house-tours","tag-john-boehner","tag-republicans-humor","tag-sequester-humor","tag-sequestration","tag-washington-dc","tag-white-house-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261","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=9261"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9270,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}