{"id":1558,"date":"2020-02-07T08:13:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2020-02-07T08:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T13:13:56","slug":"rush-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Rush Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rush Limbaugh walks amongst the freedom gods,<\/p>\n<div>a snarling racist bigot, what&#8217;s the odds.<\/div>\n<div>He calls girls sluts and bitches, a.m. radio in stitches.<\/div>\n<div>He likes the women&#8217;s movement for their bods.<\/div>\n<div>He skirts around the N word for his fans.<\/div>\n<div>His thoughts are merely fodder for shit cans.<\/div>\n<div>He&#8217;s lowered every bar on radio so far.<\/div>\n<div>He loves the whites, but not so much the tans.<\/div>\n<div>He doesn&#8217;t really talk, more like a yell,<\/div>\n<div>a snake oil huckster with nothing to sell.<\/div>\n<div>His foot is on the treadle, conspiracy to peddle.<\/div>\n<div>Some hope he&#8217;ll have the drive time spot in hell.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush Limbaugh walks amongst the freedom gods, a snarling racist bigot, what&#8217;s the odds. He calls girls sluts and bitches, a.m. radio in stitches. He likes the women&#8217;s movement for their bods. He skirts around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1558\">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":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":755,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=755","url_meta":{"origin":1558,"position":0},"title":"Vermicelli Botticelli","author":"Rick Young","date":"September 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Put the needle on the noodle. Listen to the pasta play. It's the whole kit and caboodle. There is nothing more to say. 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