{"id":14441,"date":"2016-11-07T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=14441"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:17:24","slug":"life-and-island-times-close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-and-island-times-close-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and Island Times: Close Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marlow&#8217;s Coastal Empire<\/p>\n<p>Neither\u2019s a good person or combatant but each managed to get into the 2016 show<\/p>\n<p>brutal non-stop, side street fighting<\/p>\n<p>Darkened voter minds too far apart to bridge they are picking on each other\u2019s biggest and<\/p>\n<p>meanest friends both wing and catch shots to the screams of their red and blue faced<\/p>\n<p>supporters  bystanders and the republic take some lovely thrashings   almost daily<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYo?\u201d each    asked me  in turn one black night \u201cwe want you, your vote\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t why?\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got something to do . . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWell, okay then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next day and then two days later another leak a set up a blast from the past<\/p>\n<p>candidates unflinched their loved ones hurt<\/p>\n<p>I move to a place where I can\u2019t be reached then change stools at the bar waiting for the election<\/p>\n<p>night  moon to change into the next day sun<\/p>\n<p>something or other new  might come<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for Bo-Peep\u2019s lost sheep delivery candidates will never find them<\/p>\n<p>chickens will come home to roost crapping their tails off  behind them<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110716-1.jpg\" alt=\"110716-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"162\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110716-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110716-1-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2016 From My Isle Seat<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlow&#8217;s Coastal Empire Neither\u2019s a good person or combatant but each managed to get into the 2016 show brutal non-stop, side street fighting Darkened voter minds too far apart to bridge they are picking on each other\u2019s biggest and meanest friends both wing and catch shots to the screams of their red and blue faced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14443,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions\/14443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}