{"id":1630,"date":"2020-03-07T17:30:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2020-03-07T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T22:30:24","slug":"d-s-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"D.S.T."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Saving Time is creeping up upon us,<\/p>\n<div>when we set the clocks ahead four years.<\/div>\n<div>We who lost a lot of sleep aboard the anti-don bus<\/div>\n<div>can now discard our busted hopes and fears.<\/div>\n<div>Waking up the next morn, we&#8217;ll remember not the nightmare<\/div>\n<div>which infected months, weeks, days and hours,<\/div>\n<div>casting off the subterfuge and lies so bold and bare,<\/div>\n<div>deliberate misuse of his great powers.<\/div>\n<div>Perhaps when time jumps forward, we&#8217;ll restore the reputation<\/div>\n<div>of our country, which was once held in esteem.<\/div>\n<div>Perhaps to his victims we can offer reparation,<\/div>\n<div>and put ourselves back on track for the dream.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Saving Time is creeping up upon us, when we set the clocks ahead four years. We who lost a lot of sleep aboard the anti-don bus can now discard our busted hopes and fears. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1630\">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-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2468,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2468","url_meta":{"origin":1630,"position":0},"title":"The Big Letdownski","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"In June I'll have a different attitude. I'll float above the lanes just like The Dude. I'll take the doc's advice, and try to be real nice, and cut way down on time in which I brood. 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