{"id":1807,"date":"2020-06-07T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2020-06-07T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T00:00:17","slug":"general-disturbance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"General Disturbance"},"content":{"rendered":"
Colin Powell drops\u00a0the trowel, calling Trump a liar.<\/div>\n
Prez says nah-nah Iraq war, calling pants on fire.<\/div>\n
Generals have generally come down on forty-five.<\/div>\n
Better to have done that while their jobs were still alive.<\/div>\n
Maybe\u00a0they\u00a0will get together, form a voting\u00a0bloc,<\/div>\n
persuade all the veterans their commander is a crock.<\/div>\n
Ousted from his office, he could still continue rants,<\/div>\n
but his only listeners, his pet farm of army ants.<\/div>\n
General Bonespurs, wandering his battlefield with friends,<\/div>\n
wearing just his long red tie and camouflage\u00a0Depends.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colin Powell drops\u00a0the trowel, calling Trump a liar. Prez says nah-nah Iraq war, calling pants on fire. Generals have generally come down on forty-five. Better to have done that while their jobs were still alive. Maybe\u00a0they\u00a0will get together, form a voting\u00a0bloc, persuade all the veterans their commander is a crock. Ousted from his office, he […]<\/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-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2790,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2790","url_meta":{"origin":1807,"position":0},"title":"Sink-O-Payshun","author":"Rick Young","date":"September 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The golden lips of stimulation have yet to caress my station so put off the long vacation snuggle up to isolation beating heart media nation awaits the next great sensation in the voices of vexation anarchy becomes temptation nah nah.... more to come \/evolved from failed poem to potential song","rel":"","context":"In "Posthumous Additions"","block_context":{"text":"Posthumous Additions","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=40"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1252,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1252","url_meta":{"origin":1807,"position":1},"title":"Melt Freeze","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Two waters wet and dry burn and chill illuminate mountains extinguish stars melt freeze pose timidly on leaves sweat bullets in peacetime shimmer in war calling sand to task impregnating rivers screaming tears dilute and overflow allowing for gods of mud and ice.","rel":"","context":"In "Poem"","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1045,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1045","url_meta":{"origin":1807,"position":2},"title":"Who’s to Die and What’s the Question? 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