{"id":2419,"date":"2021-03-09T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2021-03-11T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T01:23:22","slug":"harpo-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2419","title":{"rendered":"Harpo Speaks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How dark will be our Archie&#8217;s skin?<br \/>\nAnd will the royals let him in?<br \/>\nWe should have changed his name, they said.<br \/>\nBut who calls their own child &#8220;Jughead&#8221;?<br \/>\nThey cried about my baby bump.<br \/>\nThey bought a chocolate milk breast pump.<br \/>\nThey stood there ready with a sack,<br \/>\nin case the babe was born &#8220;too black.&#8221;<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t like &#8220;darkies&#8221; in the castle.<br \/>\nEven the help is a hassle.<br \/>\nGrandpa Chuck won&#8217;t give two fucks.<br \/>\nHis late wife&#8217;s kid really sucks.<br \/>\nAlways fighting with the press,<br \/>\nred heads surely are a mess.<br \/>\nSomehow, it&#8217;s Diana&#8217;s fault.<br \/>\nCurse her bones! (They&#8217;re in our vault).<br \/>\nPerhaps they&#8217;ll pull a Michael J<br \/>\nand try to bleach his tan away.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why we had to leave the isle.<br \/>\nThe whole affair was one shit pile.<br \/>\nThe U.S. will let Archie\u00a0be.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll get his own show on t.v.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll rail about his royal blood.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll call his grandpa Charles a &#8220;dud.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You killed my grandma on t.v.,<br \/>\nbut you will never get to me!<br \/>\nCamilla is a mean old bitch.<br \/>\nIt figures you&#8217;d prefer a witch!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Queen is just a foppish slag.<br \/>\nThe Buckinghams &#8220;Kind of a Drag.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How dark will be our Archie&#8217;s skin? And will the royals let him in? We should have changed his name, they said. But who calls their own child &#8220;Jughead&#8221;? 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