{"id":9723,"date":"2013-10-11T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T04:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9723"},"modified":"2013-10-11T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T04:39:07","slug":"shutdown-stops-senate-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/10\/11\/shutdown-stops-senate-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"In DC, Not Even The Clocks Run Like Clockwork (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How sadly symbolic that the <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/10\/10\/20902831-historic-senate-clock-no-longer-ticking-thanks-to-shutdown\">historic Senate clock&#8217;s no longer ticking, thanks to the government shutdown<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The team of curators that wind the 11-foot tall, nearly 200-year-old clock every week have been furloughed, the Secretary of the Senate confirms to NBC News. It was last wound on Monday, Sept. 30 &#8212; and more than a week into the shutdown, its hands are now frozen at 12:14.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The antique clock, known as the &#8220;Ohio Clock,&#8221; serves as a landmark for both reporters and senators, who regularly gather  in the &#8220;Ohio Clock corridor.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In DC, Not Even The Clocks Run Like Clockwork (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m alarmed by the old Senate clock,<br \/>\nCuz they&#8217;ve furloughed its horary doc.<br \/>\nNear two centuries old&#8211;<br \/>\nThe clock&#8217;s  out in the cold<br \/>\nWith no winders &#8212; no tick and no tock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How sadly symbolic that the historic Senate clock&#8217;s no longer ticking, thanks to the government shutdown: The team of curators that wind the 11-foot tall, nearly 200-year-old clock every week have been furloughed, the Secretary of the Senate confirms to NBC News. It was last wound on Monday, Sept. 30 &#8212; and more than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,20,6,7,3,9,12],"tags":[2423,2424,1560,2421,2422,283,1561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723"}],"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=9723"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9742,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}