{"id":114735,"date":"2014-02-06T00:25:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T05:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114735\/poem-lame-duck\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T00:25:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T05:25:02","slug":"poem-lame-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114735\/poem-lame-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Lame Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong><em>This was written for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/114732\/thematic-attic-thursday-finds-a-lame-duck-in-the-attic\/\">CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong><em>Host Bettie is celebrating National Lame Duck Day.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: none;padding: 0px;font-family: &apos;lucida grande&apos;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;line-height: 18.850000381469727px;background-color: #e0f3ff;margin-top: 24px\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/red\/blue_pics\/2010\/12\/21\/lameduck_460.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"6\">LAME DUCK<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"> Lame duck, lame duck,<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> why are you lame?<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> Did you get hurt<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> playing the game?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"> Lame duck, lame duck,<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> why can&#8217;t you walk?<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> Is it because<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> You can&#8217;t walk the talk?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"> Lame duck, lame duck,<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> what will you do?<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> Wait out your term<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> for someone brand new?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"3\"> Copyright February 5th 2014 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><br \/>\n <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. Host Bettie is celebrating National Lame Duck Day. \u00a0 LAME DUCK Lame duck, lame duck, why are you lame? Did you get hurt playing the game? Lame duck, lame duck, why can&#8217;t you walk? Is it because You can&#8217;t walk the talk? Lame duck, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}