{"id":2087,"date":"2020-10-05T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2020-10-14T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:07:52","slug":"who-was-that-masked-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"Who Was That Masked Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s a one-man Covid parade.<br \/>\nBe afraid. Be very afraid.<br \/>\nHe says he gets miracles sent down by god,<br \/>\nwhile crossing his fingers, a wink and a nod.<br \/>\nHis people are cheering him out in the street,<br \/>\nwhich prompted this psychotic sick meet and greet.<br \/>\nHe says he&#8217;ll be back in the White House in days,<br \/>\nto rule like a fool in a medical haze.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s taking a hodgepodge of powerful drugs.<br \/>\nSome of them may not have worked out their bugs.<br \/>\nStand back and stand by, this might not work out well,<br \/>\na strange denouement to these four years in hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s a one-man Covid parade. Be afraid. Be very afraid. He says he gets miracles sent down by god, while crossing his fingers, a wink and a nod. His people are cheering him out in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2087\">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-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1865,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1865","url_meta":{"origin":2087,"position":0},"title":"Majority Blues","author":"Rick Young","date":"July 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Please don't kill my darling filibuster, says Moscow Mitch with what poise he can muster. Just put yourself in my shoes, he will bluster. But, soon, he'll be abandoned, just like Custer. 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