{"id":268405,"date":"2018-01-22T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=268405"},"modified":"2018-01-22T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:00:46","slug":"how-deep-the-shole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/how-deep-the-shole\/","title":{"rendered":"How Deep the S***Hole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Edmund Burke<\/p>\n<p>Every day the discourse plummets<br \/>\nevery day the bar descends<br \/>\nHit rock bottom but keep digging<br \/>\ndown a hole that never ends<\/p>\n<p>Every day what\u2019s crass turns normal<br \/>\nidiocracy prevails<br \/>\nLike a train wreck in slow motion<br \/>\nWatch. The cars. Run off. The rails.<\/p>\n<p>Every day the world doth snicker<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve become a laughing stock<br \/>\nThe highest office? Fodder now<br \/>\nto ridicule, lampoon and mock<\/p>\n<p>Evil triumphs, it\u2019s been said<br \/>\nwhen good men just fail to act<br \/>\nEvil triumphs, we might learn<br \/>\nwhen all who see deny what\u2019s fact<\/p>\n<p>Some still justify the madness<br \/>\nSome still rationalize away<br \/>\nAll the while the clock keeps ticking<br \/>\ncounting down to judgment day<\/p>\n<p>How much evidence is called for?<br \/>\nWhat more proof do good men need<br \/>\nThat the man who holds the office<br \/>\nis of sad and sorry breed?<\/p>\n<p>Ask \u201cwhat purpose serves a leader?\u201d<br \/>\ninstigator? circus clown?<br \/>\nTo help us wallow in the mire?<br \/>\nTo lead us up or lead us down?<\/p>\n<p>So, down we go, yes ever deeper<br \/>\ntowards the bottom of this pit<br \/>\nLet\u2019s hope we never get to learn<br \/>\nhow deep goes this hole of&#8230;crap!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19823,133],"class_list":["post-268405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-edmund-burke","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}