{"id":809,"date":"2016-12-23T00:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T05:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2016-12-23T00:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T05:08:22","slug":"hes-makin-a-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s Makin&#8217; A List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Santa, please bring me some nukes for Christmas.<br \/>\nJust leave some megatons beneath my tree.<br \/>\nMy Russian pen pal asked you for the same thing.<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t want him to have more than me.<br \/>\nThe game we play is mutual destruction.<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t know, dear Santa, if you&#8217;ve heard.<br \/>\nBut this will always end up in a dead heat<br \/>\nif mass annihilation is assured.<br \/>\nSo Santa, please bring me some nukes for Christmas.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been a little naughty, there&#8217;s no doubt.<br \/>\nBut if you don&#8217;t deliver what I ask for,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll buy your factory and phase you out.<br \/>\nThe nuclear arms race has been neglected<br \/>\nfor many years now, but must be resumed.<br \/>\nA wave of paranoia is expected.<br \/>\nAn end of life scenario presumed.<br \/>\nHey Santa, I&#8217;m not kidding on this wish list.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got a lot of generals prompting me.<br \/>\nThe fate of this world hinges on your presents.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d better see some nukes under my tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Santa, please bring me some nukes for Christmas. Just leave some megatons beneath my tree. My Russian pen pal asked you for the same thing. And I don&#8217;t want him to have more than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=809\">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-809","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":843,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=843","url_meta":{"origin":809,"position":0},"title":"Lunar Tick","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The year of the rooster could be like a rocket booster, a launch into the perilous unknown. 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