{"id":1620,"date":"2020-03-02T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2020-03-02T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T01:30:57","slug":"always-in-love-with-amy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Always In Love With Amy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy joined the race in a snowstorm.<\/p>\n

Now she’s dropping out in a shit storm.<\/div>\n
She joins a list of famous Minnesotans,<\/div>\n
all of whose candidacy was verboten.<\/div>\n
Harold Stassen, Gene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, all<\/div>\n
lost but none were quite so bad as Walter Mondale’s fall.<\/div>\n
Now she’ll throw support to Joe,<\/div>\n
then go back into the snow,<\/div>\n
root for Vikings, Timberwolves and Twins.<\/div>\n
Back to Senate she will trod,<\/div>\n
hoping against hope, by god,<\/div>\n
that the person we have chosen wins.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amy joined the race in a snowstorm. Now she’s dropping out in a shit storm. She joins a list of famous Minnesotans, all of whose candidacy was verboten. Harold Stassen, Gene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, all … 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-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2050,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2050","url_meta":{"origin":1620,"position":0},"title":"Era Ta Ta","author":"Rick Young","date":"September 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This mother fucking twenty-twenty has its share of shots aplenty. 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