{"id":142,"date":"2016-09-30T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=142"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T19:54:27","slug":"why-trump-just-might-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/09\/30\/why-trump-just-might-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Just Might Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With words that flow without a thought &#8230;<br \/>\nand temperament quite lacking,<br \/>\nTrump&#8217;s big plan to win the vote &#8230;<br \/>\ncharge ahead &#8230; and just keep hacking.<\/p>\n<p>At least he knows how money flows,<br \/>\nin a business run for profit.<br \/>\nThat extra money makes things grow,<br \/>\na politician might just block it.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary spent all her life,<br \/>\nasking for our votes.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a blue-blood politician,<br \/>\nOPM keeps her afloat.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary with steady voice,<br \/>\nsays Obama&#8217;s course is true.<br \/>\nFor her that may be what is best,<br \/>\nbut will it work for you?<\/p>\n<p>Change is what the country needs,<br \/>\nbut with a plan, not hope.<br \/>\nFor if you know not where you go,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re playing rope-a-dope.<\/p>\n<p>So Trump might win November 8th,<br \/>\nwith voters worn and quite decrepit.<br \/>\nA gamble to escape your fate,<br \/>\nis more wise than to accept it.<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:092516<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With words that flow without a thought &#8230; and temperament quite lacking, Trump&#8217;s big plan to win the vote &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/09\/30\/why-trump-just-might-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Trump Just Might Win<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-2016-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}