{"id":3210,"date":"2010-04-12T23:56:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T03:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2010-04-14T00:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:20:15","slug":"act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/04\/12\/act\/","title":{"rendered":"Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our minister prime has a hell of a time<br \/>\nconvincing the world he is human<br \/>\nhe can sit in his flannels and play the piano<br \/>\nbut the guy is sure no Margaret Truman.<\/p>\n<p>And just what the word is on Helena Guergis<br \/>\nthat caused him to call in the Mounties<br \/>\nthe goods in the land is it&#8217;s just slight of hand<br \/>\ndesigned to<!--more--> deflect an accounting<\/p>\n<p>of things that the boys with the hard-core toys<br \/>\nwere doing with prisoner exchanges<br \/>\nor worse if the reason we&#8217;re staying this season<br \/>\nin bed with this Afghani danger<\/p>\n<p>is to prop up the power of the kook of the hour<br \/>\nwho&#8217;s singing love songs to the Taliban<br \/>\nwhile our boys are dying and Kabul is frying<br \/>\nand the right wing is chanting that he da man<\/p>\n<p>Our minister prime has a hell of a time<br \/>\nconvincing the world he is human<br \/>\nhe can sing all the night and believe he is bright<br \/>\nbut his light measures just half a lumen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo day 12: the goon show on Parliament Hill heats up&#8211;a little rhyme for the occasion. (#1063) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/04\/12\/act\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,7,890,3,416],"tags":[900,461,57,326,349,393,133,145],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-harper-calls-rcmp","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-politics","tag-quatrains","tag-rhymed-verse","tag-satire","tag-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}