{"id":922,"date":"2017-06-25T20:11:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T00:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=922"},"modified":"2017-06-25T20:11:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T00:11:24","slug":"health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Medicaid has been phased out,<br \/>\nand I will die, without a doubt.<br \/>\nRepublicans have just rung my death knell.<br \/>\nObama Care did give me hope,<br \/>\nbut now I&#8217;m looking at the rope.<br \/>\nRed senators, I&#8217;ll see you all in hell.<br \/>\nTrump Care will cause thousands of deaths,<br \/>\nand, as we take our final breaths,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll hope that we are martyrs bringing change.<br \/>\nThe gall of one percent to usurp the government<br \/>\nis damnably cruel if not deranged.<br \/>\nFight the power never meant so much at any time<br \/>\nas it does these days with government so steeped in crime.<br \/>\nWe cry out, the euthanized, to this regime compromised,<br \/>\ncrawl out now to save us from this wave of slime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Medicaid has been phased out, and I will die, without a doubt. Republicans have just rung my death knell. Obama Care did give me hope, but now I&#8217;m looking at the rope. Red senators, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=922\">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-922","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":1409,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1409","url_meta":{"origin":922,"position":0},"title":"Why We Care for Baudelaire","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Pray to Poe for stimulus. Pray to God for apathy. 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