{"id":2302,"date":"2020-12-25T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2021-01-31T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T13:16:25","slug":"garden-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Garden Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come get your pardon,<br \/>\navailable down at the Rose Garden,<br \/>\nredecorated, because the other way<br \/>\nmy wife hated.<br \/>\nYour pardon costs less<br \/>\nthan did changing this mess.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not just us.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve got expenses.<br \/>\nAnd then again there&#8217;s also the two Pences.<br \/>\nHere I am, fighting off libels.<br \/>\nAll they do&#8217;s collect rare bibles.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t forget Ivanka&#8217;s needs,<br \/>\nkeeping Jared wrapped in tweeds.<br \/>\nDJTJ is another.<br \/>\nNeeds his blow, unlike his brother.<br \/>\nEric&#8217;s simple, and it shows.<br \/>\nFeed him, clean him, change his clothes.<br \/>\nBarron&#8217;s still a mystery.<br \/>\nIs he related to me?<br \/>\nPardons ! Pardons ! Ink&#8217;s still wet.<br \/>\nIf you haven&#8217;t got one yet,<br \/>\nstep right up, you&#8217;re wasting\u00a0time.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll erase your every crime.<br \/>\nBuy one that&#8217;s before the fact.<br \/>\nThen, when you&#8217;re caught in the act,<br \/>\nyou\u00a0can wave it in their face.<br \/>\nPardon ! Pardon ! Saving grace.<br \/>\nCome on down. See &#8216;Crazy Don.&#8217;<br \/>\nOrange pardon light is on.<br \/>\nYou can get out of jail, free.<br \/>\nYou just need to favor me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come get your pardon, available down at the Rose Garden, redecorated, because the other way my wife hated. Your pardon costs less than did changing this mess. It&#8217;s not just us. We&#8217;ve got expenses. And then again there&#8217;s also the two Pences. Here I am, fighting off libels. All they do&#8217;s collect rare bibles. Don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2263,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2263","url_meta":{"origin":2302,"position":0},"title":"Pardon My Swamp","author":"Rick Young","date":"November 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump's pardon of Flynn today followed the pardon of a turkey. 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Seated close together without face masks, cheering at his handling of the plague, his apostles will do what their god asks,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":122,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=122","url_meta":{"origin":2302,"position":5},"title":"Charm School Bully","author":"Rick Young","date":"November 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"He slapped the smile off the face of the etiquette boy. And batted his batting eyelashes. His \"Pardon me, sir\" was more like a slur and always resulted in clashes. He even learned how executing a bow could be used as a martial attack. 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