{"id":2864,"date":"2025-02-18T12:47:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:09:45","slug":"american-democracy-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2025\/02\/18\/american-democracy-works\/","title":{"rendered":"American Democracy Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fair Novembre Fifth, Oh hallow&#8217;d day! <br>when folly&#8217;s reign did end, with wisdom&#8217;s ways. <br>Resum&#8217;d our borders, once in disarray, <br>to lawful order, holdin&#8217; scallywags at bay. <br>From want-wit&#8217;s spendthrift ways; to sex misled, <br>return&#8217;d to Prudence; the toxic spread stopped dead. <br>Ay the yoemen, mugs and wags hath spoke, <br>dispatch&#8217;d the Wall-Eyed Folks w&#8217;th their votes. <br>Hence w&#8217;th each dawn we learn&#8217;th of our fate, <br>and pray this trauma doth not come too late.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:02172025 <br>therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair Novembre Fifth, Oh hallow&#8217;d day! when folly&#8217;s reign did end, with wisdom&#8217;s ways. Resum&#8217;d our borders, once in disarray, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2025\/02\/18\/american-democracy-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Democracy Works<\/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":[25,4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse-blank-verse-fractured-elizabethan","category-general-observations","category-post-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","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=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}