{"id":2333,"date":"2021-01-20T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2021-01-31T08:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T13:11:54","slug":"up-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"Up In the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s still got his mitts on the nuclear codes until noon.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s up in the air like the devil may care, the buffoon.<br \/>\nIf he sends the command to a nuclear sub,<br \/>\nD.C. just disappears in the bay, glub, glub, glub.<br \/>\nIn this next two hours, he could have his say,<br \/>\nand possibly blow all the blue states away.<br \/>\nHe said he&#8217;ll be back, perhaps in a new form.<br \/>\nHis last campaign could well be called &#8220;U.S. Storm.&#8221;<br \/>\nThere won&#8217;t be a sigh of relief until he<br \/>\nis disarmed and deposited in history.<br \/>\nAs long as he still has his hands on the button,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re all meat to him, fried chicken and mutton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s still got his mitts on the nuclear codes until noon. He&#8217;s up in the air like the devil may care, the buffoon. If he sends the command to a nuclear sub, D.C. just disappears &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2333\">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-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2183,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2183","url_meta":{"origin":2333,"position":0},"title":"Mute Elation","author":"Rick Young","date":"October 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"If they turn on his mute button, Trump might take to wire cuttin'. He'll shout over poor hoarse Joe, echoing his, \"No! No! No!\" In two minutes silent time, just imagine what he'll mime: Hunter Biden with crack whores, Sleepy Joe's nuclear wars. And perhaps he will have signs, hold\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":2222,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2222","url_meta":{"origin":2333,"position":1},"title":"American Lie","author":"Rick Young","date":"November 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Bye, bye, this American lie. Drove him down to KFC because he wanted a thigh. His good old boys are keeping their powder dry. This transition we could see people die. This transition we could see people die. Well, for four years he's been overblown. Now he's drifted to a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Song&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Song","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=30"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":809,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=809","url_meta":{"origin":2333,"position":2},"title":"He&#8217;s Makin&#8217; A List","author":"Rick Young","date":"December 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh Santa, please bring me some nukes for Christmas. Just leave some megatons beneath my tree. My Russian pen pal asked you for the same thing. And I don't want him to have more than me. The game we play is mutual destruction. And I don't know, dear Santa, if\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":2658,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2658","url_meta":{"origin":2333,"position":3},"title":"Nuclear Winter","author":"Rick Young","date":"February 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Broiled friends defy description. Nuclear cooking benefits only buzzards. There's a flash in the panhandle, and Florida floats out to sea, a theme park of ash. Those who saw New York go will not remember for the pain. The west coast was all too easy with its many faults. Survivors\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":2175,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2175","url_meta":{"origin":2333,"position":4},"title":"Nuclear Football Nerfs","author":"Rick Young","date":"October 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"People get wise, this October surprise is happening before our eyes. Nothing you see is certain. It's a science fiction curtain. It's reality built\u00a0out of schemes and lies. Atlas, Barr the door, knock the speaker to the floor. Call Proud boys on the phone. I'll be\u00a0in the vault,\u00a0alone. Do not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Song&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Song","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=30"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":272,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=272","url_meta":{"origin":2333,"position":5},"title":"Tom Thumb and the Bomb","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In his tiny fallout shelter, singing songs like \"Helter Skelter,\" Tom Thumb sits alone and cries, wondering what decides who dies. It was late in twenty-eight; infamy will haunt the date. Skies turned white and mountains tumbled. All the human race was humbled. Now it's narrowed down to one. Earth's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bomb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bomb.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bomb.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bomb.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}