{"id":1689,"date":"2020-04-04T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2020-04-04T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T21:03:11","slug":"lone-ranger-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Lone Ranger Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lone Ranger wore a black face mask and had a native slave.<\/p>\n

He had a horse named Silver and he never missed a shave.<\/div>\n
But Clayton Moore was quite a bore and wore masks after quitting.<\/div>\n
You’re not the Ranger any more, they said. He said, You’re shitting.<\/div>\n
Tonto’d\u00a0back\u00a0to Silverheels, old Jay hung with Lyle Lovett.<\/div>\n
He bought a boat and set afloat, said, Kemosabe, shove it.<\/div>\n
Hoppy, Gene and Roy lived on, with all their sidekicks breeding.<\/div>\n
Sometime during every show, you’d see the horses feeding.<\/div>\n
John Reid’s ranger brothers were all killed by Butch’s gang.<\/div>\n
In his last wish, said, Cavendish, I’ll live to see you hang.<\/div>\n
Then Tonto came to save him. And it all goes\u00a0well from there.<\/div>\n
Twice in each show, he’d scream “Hi-Yo” and Silver reared in air.<\/div>\n
Some movies came, but we were jaded by the black and white.<\/div>\n
O.K., he’d made a brave his slave; but still it seemed all right.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lone Ranger wore a black face mask and had a native slave. He had a horse named Silver and he never missed a shave. But Clayton Moore was quite a bore and wore masks after quitting. You’re not the Ranger any more, they said. He said, You’re shitting. Tonto’d\u00a0back\u00a0to Silverheels, old Jay hung with Lyle […]<\/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-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2551,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2551","url_meta":{"origin":1689,"position":0},"title":"Clayton Moore (9\/14\/14)","author":"Rick Young","date":"September 14, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The Lone Ranger did not age too well, grew old living\u00a0in a masked-man's\u00a0hell. 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