{"id":176,"date":"2016-10-06T12:44:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=176"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:08:02","slug":"that-haywire-outfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/10\/06\/that-haywire-outfit\/","title":{"rendered":"That Haywire Outfit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois tradition of farming, was built by the settlers of Olde &#8230;<br \/>\nHay baling was a forte they mastered, they were skilled using haywire we&#8217;re told.<br \/>\nAnd today in the dark bowels of Springfield, haywire is still in great use.<br \/>\nSpringfield&#8217;s a Haywire Outfit, and expert in citizen abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Since abuse is not highly favored, folks have been leaving the state.<br \/>\nEach year a net hundred thousand, escape our upcoming fate.<br \/>\nBut for you the remaining survivors, who are planning to just stick it out,<br \/>\nlet&#8217;s focus on the problem we&#8217;re having, and create a nice, healthy rout.<\/p>\n<p>Vote out that Haywire Outfit, that places the taxpayer last,<br \/>\n&#8230; save the Olde Land of Lincoln, from its sordid and criminal past.<br \/>\nFrom that we&#8217;ll show those settlers, and proud to let them know,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re worthy of all their efforts, but the haywire has got to go.<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:093016<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois tradition of farming, was built by the settlers of Olde &#8230; Hay baling was a forte they mastered, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/10\/06\/that-haywire-outfit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That Haywire Outfit<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois-residents-only"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}