{"id":3693,"date":"2009-10-12T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2009-10-12T00:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T05:00:39","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-lightweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-lightweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: LIGHTWEIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">LIGHTWEIGHT<br \/>\nGetting older, you may realize<br \/>\nThat your waistline\u2019s a much larger size,<br \/>\nBut Obama\u2019s stayed slim,<br \/>\nHaving kept himself trim:<br \/>\nLet\u2019s award him the No-Belly Prize!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From the archive:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BASKET CASE<br \/>\nMy obesity just isn\u2019t funny<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m suing for bundles of money:<br \/>\nWhen a basket of candy<br \/>\nIs too full and too handy,<br \/>\nWho\u2019s to blame but the old Easter Bunny?<br \/>\n<small>(2005)<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">OLDER &amp; WIDER<br \/>\nAs a lad I was long and lean<br \/>\nAnd drank gallons of Ovaltine,<br \/>\nBut I had to rethink<br \/>\nThat rich chocolate drink<br \/>\nWhen I wound up an oval teen.<br \/>\n<small>(2002)<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Last week&#8217;s limerick:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BENT ON MARRIAGE<br \/>\n\u201cWe are undermining resistance<br \/>\nWith our carefully plotted persistence:<br \/>\nRather than disparage<br \/>\nThe institution of marriage,<br \/>\nWe\u2019re defining it out of existence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: LIGHTWEIGHT Getting older, you may realize That your waistline\u2019s a much larger size, But Obama\u2019s stayed slim, Having kept himself trim: Let\u2019s award him the No-Belly Prize! From the archive: BASKET CASE My obesity just isn\u2019t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Your Weekly Politickle: LIGHTWEIGHT - Politickles","description":"Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: LIGHTWEIGHT Getting older, you may realize That your waistline\u2019s a much larger"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[588,2016,2019,2018,2017,12,563],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fr-duplantier","tag-lightweight","tag-no-belly-prize","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-nobel-prize","tag-obama","tag-your-weekly-politickle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}