{"id":331,"date":"2006-10-09T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T19:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/09\/nice-voter-good-boy\/"},"modified":"2006-10-09T15:02:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T19:02:52","slug":"nice-voter-good-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/09\/nice-voter-good-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice voter, good boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elect Skeffington <font color=\"white\">*********<\/font> your X here<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">*********<\/font> produces<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">*****<\/font> * joy * joy * joy * joy *<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">*******<\/font> on election night<\/p>\n<p>And not much else until the first<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"white\">***********<\/font>bomb<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">**********<\/font> drops<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"white\">************<\/font> !!<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">************<\/font> !!<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">************<\/font> !!<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">************<\/font> !!<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">************<\/font> !!<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">************<\/font> !!<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">********<\/font>! BBOOMBB !<\/p>\n<p>And he takes away, subtracts, cancels everything<br \/>\nthat ever meant anything to you:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#952409\">healthcare<\/font> <font color=\"#c8310b\">schools<\/font> <font color=\"#c8310b\">realistic envronmental policies<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">*****<\/font>  <font color=\"#f57150\">social programs<\/font>  <font color=\"#fab3a0\">daycare<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"white\">****<\/font> \u2014 all <font color=\"#952409\">GONE<\/font> <font color=\"#c8310b\">Gone<\/font> <font color=\"#f57150\">gone<\/font> <font color=\"#fab3a0\">gone<\/font> <font color=\"#fdddd5\">gone<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>So he can give tax breaks to his rich buddies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">And then you wonder why you voted for the guy<br \/>\nand how soon you can vote out \u2014 not just him<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"white\">*****<\/font> <font color=\"red\"><strong>But the whole damn system:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><strong>Frisk &#8217;em fellow victims, kiss off this system!<br \/>\nPut &#8217;em in a jam jar, feathered with some black tar!<br \/>\nRide &#8217;em on a railroad, till they have a full load,<br \/>\nThen tell &#8217;em what we voted for, we will take it no more!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Skeff:<br \/>\nit would appear that<br \/>\nyou should postpone<br \/>\nyour fireside Town Hall<br \/>\nuntil next week,<br \/>\nwhen all this<br \/>\nwill have blown over:<\/p>\n<p>The weather report is for<br \/>\nRain and cooler<br \/>\nSo most of the<br \/>\nbleeding heart pinkos<br \/>\nwill stay home.<\/p>\n<p>Polls are up, Buddy;<br \/>\nthis is just a short blip:<\/p>\n<p>All the best,<br \/>\nJack.<\/p>\n<p>Chair,<br \/>\nPeople for the<br \/>\nKeep Skeff Action Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elect Skeffington ********* your X here ********* produces ***** * joy * joy * joy * joy * ******* on election night And not much else until the first ***********bomb ********** drops ************ !! ************ !! ************ !! ************ !! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/09\/nice-voter-good-boy\/\">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":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concrete-verse","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}