{"id":1188,"date":"2018-03-01T12:27:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2018-03-01T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T17:27:40","slug":"march-madness-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"March Madness Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like we&#8217;ll have a springtime filled with perps and prosecutors,<br \/>\nall to stop a president who&#8217;d rather be at Hooters.<br \/>\nAlready we have several names, like Gates and Manafort.<br \/>\nPapadopoulos and Flynn have had their time in court.<br \/>\nRob Porter and Hope Hicks jumped ship before the boat goes down.<br \/>\nSpicey and the Mooch were booted and got out of town.<br \/>\nPriebus and Sebastian Gorka remain under fire,<br \/>\nlike Steve Bannon, Trump&#8217;s beloved crypto-nazi liar.<br \/>\nRemarkably, Jeff Sessions, our attorney general gnome,<br \/>\nhas not bailed yet, the rebel pet, and still calls D.C. home.<br \/>\nAnd Sarah Sanders: who can wait to see her on the stand,<br \/>\nwith southern twang and double talk, her dominatrix brand.<br \/>\nMaybe surprise ending will be Omarosa wired.<br \/>\nShe could play the tapes in court, stand up and scream, &quot;You&#8217;re fired!&quot;<br \/>\nAll in all, we&#8217;d like to see this wrap before the summer.<br \/>\nEnd this era, known hereafter as &quot;The U.S. Bummer.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like we&#8217;ll have a springtime filled with perps and prosecutors, all to stop a president who&#8217;d rather be at Hooters. Already we have several names, like Gates and Manafort. Papadopoulos and Flynn have had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1188\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":552,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=552","url_meta":{"origin":1188,"position":0},"title":"Mixed Double-cross","author":"Rick Young","date":"February 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Manchild at the net can't explain his double fault. His lob to the baseline was a bomb. His sudden smashing serve served no one well. 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