{"id":384,"date":"2017-04-03T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=384"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:51:53","slug":"just-wait-out-the-bump-in-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2017\/04\/03\/just-wait-out-the-bump-in-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Wait Out the Bump in the Road?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes &#8230; the strategy, it now is so clear,<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a bump in the road, we&#8217;ll just hold our breathe &#8230;<br \/>\nand soon it will disappear!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only four years, just stonewall the time,<br \/>\nwork in a bunker and wait out the flak,<br \/>\npeace will return all is fine.<\/p>\n<p>Mind not the suffering of those whom you lead,<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re pawns in the game, confused, distressed,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s only four years that they&#8217;ll bleed.<\/p>\n<p>From the poor or disabled, those most in need,<br \/>\nto our schools and our towns let them twist in the wind,<br \/>\nlet them whine, let them cry, let them plead.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that for years, we&#8217;ve sunk into debt,<br \/>\nthat hundreds of thousands of people have left.<br \/>\nOur future&#8217;s a game of roulette!<\/p>\n<p>For it&#8217;s clear that since this governor came,<br \/>\nthings have turned worse, no budget has passed,<br \/>\nthe governor&#8217;s surely to blame!<\/p>\n<p>Yes &#8230; the strategy, it now is so clear,<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a bump in the road, we&#8217;ll just hold our breathe &#8230;<br \/>\nand soon the bump disappears!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:033117<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes &#8230; the strategy, it now is so clear, &#8220;It&#8217;s a bump in the road, we&#8217;ll just hold our breathe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2017\/04\/03\/just-wait-out-the-bump-in-the-road\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Wait Out the Bump in the Road?<\/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-384","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\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}