{"id":1881,"date":"2020-07-08T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T01:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2020-07-20T07:19:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:19:45","slug":"horton-fears-a-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Horton Fears a WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"

With it’s news of airborne COVID spread,
\nHorton knows he’s notching up more dead.
\n“A person’s a person no matter how small,”
\nbut estimates say he can’t kill them all.
\nThe WHO was not perfect, we all have our flaws.
\nBut that’s not allowed in the quirk of his laws.
\nIt’s all been a hoax which the WHO perpetrated,
\nsaid Horton to those who he secretly hated.
\nA death count’s\u00a0a death count, but let it be small.
\nHe really sees no use for numbers at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With it’s news of airborne COVID spread, Horton knows he’s notching up more dead. “A person’s a person no matter how small,” but estimates say he can’t kill them all. The WHO was not perfect, … 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-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2474,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2474","url_meta":{"origin":1881,"position":0},"title":"We Need More Space","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Look out up above, dude, it's the falling Chinese rocket! It's gotta land somewhere, but they don't know how to clock it. 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