{"id":3014,"date":"2025-10-28T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:51:01","slug":"hey-america-welcome-to-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2025\/10\/28\/hey-america-welcome-to-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey America &#8211; Welcome to October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Connivers use ignorance as a survival mechanism. \u00a0<br>The Serpents use Conspiracy Theory to feed anxiety during anxious times. <br>They feed off each other, \u00a0<br>and they stench things up. <br>Ignorance and Conspiracy Theory &#8211; their weapons of choice, <br>some may stand in peaceful protest or shake a fist, <br>next &#8211; perhaps throw a punch or a rock, \u00a0<br>and finally maybe Rent &#8211; a &#8211; Mob, \u00a0<br>That&#8217;s all they&#8217;ve got. <br>Pick one of many issues**- what makes contextual common sense? \u00a0<br>what is their position? <br>Enough said? <br>They want to get under the skin of people who care. <br>So the people who care &#8211; just give up and tune out. \u00a0<br>That is a goal they have. <br>So . . . . ah . . . . just don&#8217;t let them get under your skin. <br>Smile and resume control of your own thinking. \u00a0<br>Do not let Connivers and Serpents affect  <br>how you think or how you act. <br>So don&#8217;t give up &#8211; ever. \u00a0<br>That really bugs &#8217;em. <br>And you&#8217;ll feel &#8211; <br>better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:10012025 <br>therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;**where do you stand on issues such as these?  unmanaged borders, co-ed sports, law and order, fentanyl, U.S. military spending, etc.&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connivers use ignorance as a survival mechanism. \u00a0The Serpents use Conspiracy Theory to feed anxiety during anxious times. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2025\/10\/28\/hey-america-welcome-to-october-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey America &#8211; Welcome to October 2025<\/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-3014","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\/3014","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=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}