{"id":269796,"date":"2018-02-09T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=269796"},"modified":"2018-02-09T06:06:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:06:17","slug":"pindar-prods-pepe-batbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pindar-prods-pepe-batbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pindar prods Pepe Batbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ode to a Lying Lymph Node<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Thanks to prodding from Pindar (522 B.C.-c.440 B.C.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The doctor said of lying lymph nodes I have plenty<br \/>\nhundreds inside me in fact they are all over the place<br \/>\nmost help me out with hiding tax reports and money<br \/>\nand disguise inner feelings about immigrants and race.<br \/>\n\u00a0Their filter function produces \u2018believe me\u2019 uncouth truth<br \/>\nI have my lying aides call them all alternative facts<br \/>\nlet my insulting comments and tweets be read forsooth<br \/>\nlet my ever changing beleaguered staff do the redacts.<br \/>\nBelieve me I will continue my leering lymphatic lying<br \/>\nover my next three, the best in history, presidential years<br \/>\nmy base, the nation and world can\u2019t say I\u2019m not trying<br \/>\nto use these lying lymph nodes located under my ears.<br \/>\n\u00a0To all readers concerning my lying lymphadenopathy<br \/>\nbelieve me I want no criticism and need no empathy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drumpf-Filled Days of Puerile Praise<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Here, Pindar prods me out of an existential malaise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0At all times I\u2019m in need of praise<br \/>\nfrom any and all that care to give<br \/>\nlet it pour like rain in a misty haze<br \/>\nfiltering through my egotistic sieve.<br \/>\nlay on more praise as thick as gravy<br \/>\nfiltered through narcissistic lymphs<br \/>\nrivers of praise in my cerebrum wavy<br \/>\nlies about all my conquered nymphs.<br \/>\ncall me Money Man, Golf\u00a0 Man, Bigly<br \/>\nLord of the Links, Gold Guru in power<br \/>\nmy synapses get all jiggy and wiggly<br \/>\nas I sing with joy in my golden shower.<br \/>\na brand new White House holiday carol<br \/>\npraising my persona, pathetic and puerile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to a Lying Lymph Node Thanks to prodding from Pindar (522 B.C.-c.440 B.C.) The&#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":[20049,20050,20051,13843],"class_list":["post-269796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-gold-guru","tag-golf-man","tag-money-man","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269796","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=269796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}