{"id":551,"date":"2009-03-09T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/?p=551"},"modified":"2009-03-16T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:22:45","slug":"cowen-is-my-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2009\/03\/09\/cowen-is-my-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowen is my shepherd &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Edel! You need to know a wee bit about Irish politics to get this one, but basically it&#8217;s current <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taoiseach\">Taoiseach<\/a> (Prime Minister), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Cowen\">Brian Cowen<\/a>, for the economic problems:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;\">Cowen is my shepherd, I shall not work. He leadeth me beside the still factories. He restoreth my faith in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finegael.ie\/index.cfm\">Fine Gael<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;\">He guideth me to the path of unemployment.<br \/>\nYea, though I wait for my dole, I own the bank that refuses me.<br \/>\nCowen has anointed my income with taxes, my expense runneth over my income, surely, poverty and hard living will follow me all the days of his term.<br \/>\nFrom hence fort we will live all the days of our lives in a rented home with an overseas landlord.<br \/>\nI am glad I am Irish, I am glad that I am free.<br \/>\nBut I wish I was a dog, and Cowen was a tree.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2009\/03\/09\/cowen-is-my-shepherd\/\">http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2009\/03\/09\/cowen-is-my-shepherd\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Edel! You need to know a wee bit about Irish politics to get this one, but basically it&#8217;s current Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Brian Cowen, for the economic problems: Cowen is my shepherd, I shall not work. He leadeth me beside the still factories. He restoreth my faith in Fine Gael. He guideth me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,285,102],"tags":[1616,1613,1950,620,1617,64,1921,1958,1614,1619,1618,1615,613],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish","category-politics","category-work","tag-bank","tag-cowen","tag-dog","tag-dole","tag-expense","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-politics","tag-poverty","tag-taoiseach","tag-taxes","tag-tree","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}