{"id":2254,"date":"2020-11-18T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T03:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2020-11-29T11:04:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T16:04:32","slug":"wai-wi-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"Wai Wi Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six scythes sigh citing sight&#8217;s slight size.<br \/>\nContemporaneously, the clown chief juggles<br \/>\nballs in the oversize pockets of golf pantaloons.<br \/>\nHis jesters, the caddies, the sick secret service,<br \/>\nall watch in astonishment balls fly all over.<br \/>\nEvery drive is a missile. Every iron is a bomb.<br \/>\nThe holes in this course seem bigger.<br \/>\nThey were made by random mortar fire.<br \/>\nHole nine takes thirteen putts. No fairways.<br \/>\nNineteenth is sprite and cheese fries. Hot sauce.<br \/>\nHe signs scorecards for the crowd. A perfect 18.<br \/>\nThen into the bulletproof cart and onto the nearest Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six scythes sigh citing sight&#8217;s slight size. Contemporaneously, the clown chief juggles balls in the oversize pockets of golf pantaloons. His jesters, the caddies, the sick secret service, all watch in astonishment balls fly all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2254\">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-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":494,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=494","url_meta":{"origin":2254,"position":0},"title":"Bats Without Balls","author":"Rick Young","date":"October 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Bats without balls often cling to walls. They can hear a pitch resound. That's why they hang upside down. They can sense the stitches turn in their radar fueled nocturne. 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