{"id":810,"date":"2024-01-28T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=810"},"modified":"2024-01-28T14:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:22:45","slug":"make-the-pie-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Make the Pie Higher!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>The following poem is composed entirely of direct quotations from George W. Bus<\/em>h.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think we all agree, the past is over.<br \/>\nThis is still a dangerous world.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a world of madmen<br \/>\nAnd uncertainty<br \/>\nAnd potential mental losses.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely is the question asked<br \/>\nIs our children learning?<br \/>\nWill the highways of the internet<br \/>\nBecome more few?<br \/>\nHow many hands have I shaked?<br \/>\nThey misunderestimate me.<\/p>\n<p>I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.<br \/>\nI know that the human being and the fish<br \/>\nCan coexist.<\/p>\n<p>Families is where our nation finds hope<br \/>\nWhere our wings take dream.<br \/>\nPut food on your family!<br \/>\nKnock down the tollbooth!<br \/>\nVulcanize society!<br \/>\nMake the pie higher!<br \/>\nMake the pie higher!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>23 Jan 2009<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The following poem is composed entirely of direct quotations from George W. Bush.] &nbsp; I think we all agree, the past is over. This is still a dangerous world. It\u2019s a world of madmen And uncertainty And potential mental losses. Rarely is the question asked Is our children learning? Will<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=810\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2000-2019","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}