{"id":412,"date":"2022-11-23T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=412"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:41:47","slug":"avert-this-grim-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2022\/11\/23\/avert-this-grim-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"He Lost His Pants Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back now it has happened so fast, since we&#8217;ve come to this sad situation.<\/p>\n<p>Where borders are broken! &#8211; and masks &#8211; are they tokens? displaying manipulation?<\/p>\n<p>Where crimes are forgiven and victims not given pause or consideration;<\/p>\n<p>instead they are blamed, and sometimes they&#8217;re shamed &#8211; a sorry sad observation.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s much more than that, where what once there was fact, we&#8217;re now told is crazy extreme.<\/p>\n<p>The emperor lost his clothes at our cost, is it all one dastardly scheme?<\/p>\n<p>So where do we go and what do we do &#8211; how to reverse the spin?<\/p>\n<p>Well talk with your friends and folks that you know about the debacle we&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n<p>Share the examples, of folly you witness and let it be known you&#8217;re disgusted;<\/p>\n<p>then compare notes, of who&#8217;s blowing smoke, support those who you know can be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>For if evil prevails &#8211; and if we all fail &#8211; to call out the demons and fools;<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s Paradise lost, all at our cost, for then the tyrants will rule.<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:112322<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back now it has happened so fast, since we&#8217;ve come to this sad situation. Where borders are broken! &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2022\/11\/23\/avert-this-grim-epiphany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He Lost His Pants Again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}