{"id":1586,"date":"2023-08-30T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:30:52","slug":"regarding-our-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/08\/30\/regarding-our-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Regarding Our Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Witness scanted borders that welcome &#8211; ay the unhoused guiltless  <br>but too oft masking varlets, felons, rapers, traitors and slaves  <br>and far too many far eastern young men got-aways. <br>Who be the arrant snollygosters and busky brachs that bettle o&#8217;er us? <br>those swag-bellied clodpoles that hold carelessly our trust <br>allowing our leaky borders to bust, doth giveth us mugs the shank? <br>The grumbletons have awak&#8217;nd are alarum&#8217;d and formed ranks,  <br>to the dastards they shout &#8220;Bite My Thumb&#8221; for they are quite quanked.  <br>To look upon such shortage of quick mettle, calls to be settled;<br>this slubbering seems a plan, it must not stand, being the work of the devil . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:08222023 &#8211; based on excerpt from &#8220;Lawless Disorder&#8221;<br>www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witness scanted borders that welcome &#8211; ay the unhoused guiltless but too oft masking varlets, felons, rapers, traitors and slaves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/08\/30\/regarding-our-southern-border\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Regarding Our Southern Border<\/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":[25,4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse-blank-verse-fractured-elizabethan","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","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=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}