{"id":1678,"date":"2020-03-30T10:50:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2020-03-30T10:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:50:59","slug":"another-thirty-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Another Thirty Days"},"content":{"rendered":"
Trump’s Easter ‘aspiration’ caused lots of consternation.<\/div>\n
Now ‘good things’ should be happening by June.<\/div>\n
We’ll see ‘the bottom of the hill,” for real or by the force of will.<\/div>\n
A hundred thousand will\u00a0have died too soon.<\/div>\n
We now lead the whole world with our high number of infections,<\/div>\n
overtaking Spain and the Chinese.<\/div>\n
He’s got to clear this up before the upcoming elections,<\/div>\n
or else he’ll have to hand Biden the keys.<\/div>\n
Twenty-twenty hindsight will not be kind to the world,<\/div>\n
the year when we were all sent to our room.<\/div>\n
COVID-19 had us in its deadly fingers curled.<\/div>\n
We had to read about the gloom and doom.<\/div>\n
And as the market crashed and people lashed out at their leaders,<\/div>\n
Trump said he played it as a perfect ten.<\/div>\n
With his sub-standard team of con men, crooks and bottom-feeders,<\/div>\n
he led us through the viral lion’s den.<\/div>\n
For all his hoary pomp and and in-your-damned-face lying,<\/div>\n
his base remains, amazingly, intact.<\/div>\n
He’ll use this as a power point, how he curtailed the dying,<\/div>\n
no need for numbers, history or fact.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump’s Easter ‘aspiration’ caused lots of consternation. Now ‘good things’ should be happening by June. We’ll see ‘the bottom of the hill,” for real or by the force of will. A hundred thousand will\u00a0have died too soon. We now lead the whole world with our high number of infections, overtaking Spain and the Chinese. He’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2307,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2307","url_meta":{"origin":1678,"position":0},"title":"New Year’s Delay","author":"Rick Young","date":"December 31, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This new year's eve, there's no reprieve from ghosts of old years past. 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