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It&#8217;s more than we&#8217;re both getting old and fat. Now he sleeps with my wife as I go about my life, caught in a nowhere betwixt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2204\">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-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2216,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2216","url_meta":{"origin":2204,"position":0},"title":"Woofers, Not Tweeters","author":"Rick Young","date":"November 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"There'll be dogs back in the White House pretty soon. They'll replace the current resident baboon. 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