{"id":9353,"date":"2013-04-04T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2013-04-04T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T20:54:55","slug":"beard-pac-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/04\/04\/beard-pac-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairy Proposition (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My bearded husband will be pleased to hear about this new <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/291881-pac-launches-to-support-bearded-candidates\">BEARD PAC<\/a>.  It&#8217;s been launched to support bearded candidates of any party, with the ultimate goal of getting a beard back into the Oval Office:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s been 125 years since our last bearded President, Benjamin Harrison, was elected,\u201d BEARD PAC Communications Director Andy Shapero said. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping that with our support, bearded individuals will shrug off over a century of political irrelevance and start running for office again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hairy Proposition (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re bearded and want to be prez,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a PAC that might back you, that says<br \/>\nFacial hair is a must<br \/>\nAnd nude chins are a bust.<br \/>\nI suggest they Ben Harrison <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.wikia.com\/wiki\/Rez\">rez<\/a>.<b>*<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>*<\/b> My apologies, but I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a> reference irresistible, even though I wouldn&#8217;t even know what &#8220;rez&#8221; means without the help of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=rez\">Urban Dictionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My bearded husband will be pleased to hear about this new BEARD PAC. It&#8217;s been launched to support bearded candidates of any party, with the ultimate goal of getting a beard back into the Oval Office: \u201cIt\u2019s been 125 years since our last bearded President, Benjamin Harrison, was elected,\u201d BEARD PAC Communications Director Andy Shapero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,6,7,3,17],"tags":[2343,2339,2344,2342,192,589,2348,2340,2341,2338,2345,2346,2347,2761],"class_list":["post-9353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house","tag-andy-shapero","tag-beard","tag-bearded-politicians","tag-benjamin-harrison","tag-campaign-satire","tag-oval-office","tag-political-action-committee","tag-political-candidates","tag-political-humor","tag-political-pac","tag-role-playing","tag-second-life","tag-urban-dictionary","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353","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=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}