{"id":1759,"date":"2023-10-01T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:23:56","slug":"good-riddance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/10\/01\/good-riddance\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance Bull-ony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cartels and hostiles see open borders as a sign on the yellow brick road. <br>Forgive student debt; catch and release; it&#8217;s all for the best we are told. <br>Abandon the Afghans, leave the munitions, and set all the prisoners free. <br>Build windmills, go solar, no plans for transition, kill oil just make a decree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawless disorder means victims are sent to the altar of social injustice.<br>And if by mistake, you misuse a pronoun you&#8217;re shunned and quickly dismissed. <br>Female athletes wonder what happened to the pride of feminist power. <br>And diversity ends outside the groupthink; facts always threaten a coward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So where will this lead, this discord and chaos, that slowly pulls us apart?<br>Wherever one looks, we all stand in wonder, why everything&#8217;s going to pot. <br>Although left unspoken, it has been noticed by many who will not admit it.<br>They&#8217;ll quietly vote to kick out the crazies; they&#8217;re tired of all the bull &#8211; ony.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:022924<br>www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartels and hostiles see open borders as a sign on the yellow brick road. Forgive student debt; catch and release; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/10\/01\/good-riddance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Riddance Bull-ony<\/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":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","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=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}