{"id":1958,"date":"2020-08-04T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2020-08-04T12:58:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T16:58:38","slug":"during-the-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"During The Gold Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I woke to see fed troops<br \/>\nIn camo clashing,<br \/>\nin a downtown Portland street.<br \/>\nThere were children chanting<br \/>\nand mothers marching<br \/>\nAnd protestors being beat.<br \/>\nThere were blunt munitions<br \/>\nbeing fired<br \/>\nand tear gas on the breeze.<br \/>\nLook at Law and Order on the loose<br \/>\nIn the twenty-first century.<br \/>\nLook at Law and Order on the loose<br \/>\nIn the twenty-first\u00a0century.<\/p>\n<p>I was running\u00a0from their\u00a0vicious clubbing;<br \/>\nthey had pepper sprayed my eyes.<br \/>\nI was out to seek a sane world,<br \/>\npenetrating all the lies.<br \/>\nThis was a land splaying blue\u00a0and red<br \/>\nAnd with tension getting high.<br \/>\nI was thinking about what<br \/>\nour\u00a0leader said<br \/>\nand just knowing it was a lie.<br \/>\nThinking about what<br \/>\nour\u00a0leader said,<br \/>\nI was sure that it was a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I saw a number<br \/>\nof my brothers, sisters,<br \/>\nbeing thrown in unmarked vans.<br \/>\nThere were people crying<br \/>\nprojectiles flying,<br \/>\nIt was all way out of hand.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not a dream, no, not a dream<br \/>\nOp Legend had begun.<br \/>\nThey were testing out<br \/>\na desperate\u00a0despot&#8217;s scheme:<br \/>\nHide the flag behind the gun.<br \/>\nOverwhelmed by evil Silver greed,<br \/>\nDemocracy on the run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I woke to see fed troops In camo clashing, in a downtown Portland street. There were children chanting and mothers marching And protestors being beat. There were blunt munitions being fired and tear gas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1958\">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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":607,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=607","url_meta":{"origin":1958,"position":0},"title":"After the Terrible Twos","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The tolerable threes quickly turn to the frightening fours, then fiddling fives and by slick six they're roaming outdoors. 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