{"id":793,"date":"2016-12-14T04:57:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T09:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2016-12-14T04:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T09:57:49","slug":"creep-in-the-heart-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"Creep in the Heart of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days ago, I miscarried.<br \/>\nJust a little blob covered in red.<br \/>\nNow they tell me it&#8217;s got to be buried.<br \/>\nBad enough my zygote child is dead.<br \/>\nFetus funerals are the law in Texas.<br \/>\nStrange new rules now suddenly abound.<br \/>\nBring it to the graveyard in a Lexus.<br \/>\nThrow it with some flowers in the ground.<br \/>\nPriest will eulogize our little Cletis.<br \/>\nThey suggested that it have a name.<br \/>\nWe just made a guess it&#8217;s a boy fetus.<br \/>\nThis whole system seems a bit insane.<br \/>\nPlan is when the ceremony ends,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll go out to breakfast with some friends.<br \/>\nAnd, as this crazed situation begs,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll all order sunny side up eggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days ago, I miscarried. Just a little blob covered in red. Now they tell me it&#8217;s got to be buried. Bad enough my zygote child is dead. Fetus funerals are the law in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=793\">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":[3,4],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2539,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2539","url_meta":{"origin":793,"position":0},"title":"Texas Hold &#8216;Em","author":"Rick Young","date":"September 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Texas got things all out of proportion. Need a person swing for an abortion? 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