{"id":9617,"date":"2013-08-27T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2013-08-27T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:30:44","slug":"presidential-dog-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/08\/27\/presidential-dog-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The Diversionary Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not surprised that President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/politics-on-four-legs-presidents-and-their-pets-17306\">recently acquired a cute new puppy.<\/a>  After all, there&#8217;s a long history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.gwu.edu\/~esaunder\/UnleashingPresidentialPower.pdf\">strategic use of dogs by politicians.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The Diversionary Dog<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>They say dogs are politically handy&#8212;<br \/>\nAs distractions, attractively dandy.<br \/>\nBarack&#8217;s numbers are down,<br \/>\nAnd he knows that no frown<br \/>\nCan resist POTUS pup operandi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not surprised that President Obama recently acquired a cute new puppy. After all, there&#8217;s a long history of the strategic use of dogs by politicians. Limerick Ode To The Diversionary Dog By Madeleine Begun Kane They say dogs are politically handy&#8212; As distractions, attractively dandy. Barack&#8217;s numbers are down, And he knows that no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,6,7,3,17],"tags":[2411,2408,2409,2410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617"}],"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=9617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9624,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions\/9624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}