{"id":2368,"date":"2021-01-31T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2021-02-18T06:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T11:02:16","slug":"quo-vadis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Quo Vadis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feed the hungry.<br \/>\nKill the rich.<br \/>\nOcean&#8217;s dying.<br \/>\nLife&#8217;s a bitch.<br \/>\nNothing matters.<br \/>\nPlague abounds.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t matter.<br \/>\nMake the rounds.<br \/>\nPolice are angry.<br \/>\nLooters, too.<br \/>\nSometimes they don&#8217;t<br \/>\nknow who&#8217;s who.<br \/>\nPolar bears now<br \/>\nneed life vests.<br \/>\nWe have failed<br \/>\nso many tests.<br \/>\nTo escape<br \/>\nour own trap,<br \/>\nleave the tent now.<br \/>\nCut the flap.<br \/>\nMany things<br \/>\nwill have to change.<br \/>\nOur streets are<br \/>\na shooting\u00a0range.<br \/>\nIf we have to<br \/>\npay for peace,<br \/>\nscrap the weapons.<br \/>\nChange the lease.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time we learn<br \/>\nto treat our land<br \/>\nbetter than<br \/>\na one-night-stand.<br \/>\nStand together.<br \/>\nThat we must.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re the gods<br \/>\nwe must trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feed the hungry. Kill the rich. Ocean&#8217;s dying. Life&#8217;s a bitch. Nothing matters. Plague abounds. We don&#8217;t matter. Make the rounds. Police are angry. Looters, too. Sometimes they don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s who. Polar bears now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2368\">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-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1484,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1484","url_meta":{"origin":2368,"position":0},"title":"MMXX","author":"Rick Young","date":"December 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Twenty twenty could be our last time through the rotation; \"E Pluribus Whatever Crimes,\" the motto of the nation. To think back how we stole this land and built it up to rockets. Our time is but a one-night stand, small change in cosmos pockets. 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