{"id":288,"date":"2016-12-17T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=288"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:20:23","slug":"uncle-bill-was-right-again-aka-should-have-listened-to-president-bill-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/12\/17\/uncle-bill-was-right-again-aka-should-have-listened-to-president-bill-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Bill Was Right Again (aka &#8211; Should Have Listened to President Bill Clinton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All families have an Uncle Bill, who&#8217;s wise and often right.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not until some time has passed, his wisdom comes to light.<br \/>\nBut far too often he&#8217;s ignored, discounted with a shrug,<br \/>\nand family members pay the price, for being far too smug.<\/p>\n<p>The smugness of the builders who, owned the Great Blue Wall,<br \/>\nheld apodictic certainty, that it would never fall.<br \/>\nBut Uncle Bill said &#8220;Don&#8217;t assume blue collar votes are ours.<br \/>\nGet down to earth, do what&#8217;s smart, stop shooting for the stars.<\/p>\n<p>With fairies and with sugarplums, and heads up in the clouds,<br \/>\nthe advisors that poor Hillary had, seemed wrapped up in a shroud.<br \/>\n&#8220;Ignore Wisconsin, Michigan too, Pennsylvania&#8217;s in the bag,<br \/>\nlet&#8217;s move on, for time spent here, will only cause a drag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So time has passed, again we see, that Uncle Bill was right.<br \/>\nEach magic fairy now is gone, no sugarplums in sight.<br \/>\nProfound advisors who once claimed, both insight and respect,<br \/>\nare scrambling now, to explain, malpractice and neglect.<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:121216<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All families have an Uncle Bill, who&#8217;s wise and often right. It&#8217;s not until some time has passed, his wisdom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/12\/17\/uncle-bill-was-right-again-aka-should-have-listened-to-president-bill-clinton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncle Bill Was Right Again (aka &#8211; Should Have Listened to President Bill Clinton)<\/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-288","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\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}