{"id":707,"date":"2016-02-23T06:55:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2016-02-23T06:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:55:21","slug":"cause-i-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cause I Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you tell me what you&#8217;re missin&#8217;, I will tell you what I found.<br \/>\nNo one out here seems to listen. There just ain&#8217;t no common ground.<br \/>\nEverything the poor man visions, seems the rich man wanna spoil.<br \/>\nGot no hand in the decisions. They just toil until they boil.<br \/>\nNow the melting pot&#8217;s spilled over. And the cleanup has begun.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re not upon the A-list, better be prepared to run.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t rely on constitutions. They&#8217;re just words that can be changed.<br \/>\nIf you offer bold solutions, you just might be called deranged.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a down side to all nations, though they might claim to be free.<br \/>\nYou will find that all the leaders are the rich minority.<br \/>\nSo if you ain&#8217;t got no money, so if you ain&#8217;t got no land,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d best marry up, my honey, or be buried where you stand.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a dream in certain fictions that they call equality.<br \/>\nBut the world is based on frictions, sadly, not on harmony.<br \/>\nIf you tell me what you&#8217;re after, I will tell you if it&#8217;s there.<br \/>\nPlease excuse my maddened laughter. It is only &#8217;cause I care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you tell me what you&#8217;re missin&#8217;, I will tell you what I found. No one out here seems to listen. There just ain&#8217;t no common ground. 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