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Wasn&#8217;t twenty minutes &#8216;fore the pipe began to stink. The warden came, said, &#8216;Who&#8217;s to blame?&#8221; We said, &#8220;Who do you think?&#8221; Then they saw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2394\">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-2394","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":2394,"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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