{"id":92,"date":"2016-09-15T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=92"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T19:33:57","slug":"poor-bernie-took-the-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/09\/15\/poor-bernie-took-the-bait\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Bernie Took the Bait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in early 2016,<br \/>\nNew Hampshire&#8217;s primary was well under way.<br \/>\nBernie led in the polls &#8230; the Hill stuck in a hole,<br \/>\nHillary wanted to debate right away.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing was scheduled but the Bern said OK,<br \/>\nsure we can have a debate.<br \/>\nBut the Hill must agree &#8230; to debate &#8230; we&#8217;ll do three.<br \/>\nAnd everyone thought it was great.<\/p>\n<p>In May the primary in California drew near,<br \/>\nthe voters just couldn&#8217;t agree.<br \/>\nThe polls they were tight &#8230; Hill&#8217;s lead it was slight &#8230;<br \/>\nAnd the Hill said no debate three.<\/p>\n<p>Back in New Hampshire the Bern he was fair,<br \/>\nlet the voters see a debate.<br \/>\nThe Bern&#8217;s misplace trust, in the Hill was a bust.<br \/>\nIs a Hillary Promise just bait?<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:090216<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in early 2016, New Hampshire&#8217;s primary was well under way. Bernie led in the polls &#8230; the Hill stuck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/09\/15\/poor-bernie-took-the-bait\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poor Bernie Took the Bait<\/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-92","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\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}