{"id":17188,"date":"2018-01-09T19:40:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=17188"},"modified":"2018-01-09T19:40:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:40:27","slug":"life-island-times-good-night-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-good-night-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Good Night White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s note: Almost a year into our new, stranger times, it feels like we are living in some fictional spooky midwest town.  We are beset with multiple sideshow investigative dramas alongside existential threats with childlike leaders trading insults across the oceans.  It&#8217;s like we are living inside some poorly written and directed film and video game offshoot by Steven Spielberg and Stephen King.<\/p>\n<p>So with the above as prologue, here is a bedtime story for these times.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2229-e1515526794895.png\" alt=\"IMG_2229\" width=\"350\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the main White House bedroom<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a charging smartphone<br \/>\nAnd a red MAGA ballcap under the dome<br \/>\nAnd a picture of<br \/>\nsome guy named George staring up at the moon<br \/>\nAnd there were three Russian bears sitting on chairs<br \/>\nAnd one fat mewling Korean kitten<br \/>\nAnd a pair of red Chinese mittens<br \/>\nAnd an unruly Senate and House<br \/>\nBoth filled with louses<br \/>\nAnd a comb and a brush and bowlful of covfefe mush<br \/>\nAnd a quiet first lady who is whispering \u201chush\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goodnight White House bedroom<br \/>\nGoodnight George looking at the moon<br \/>\nGoodnight media talking smack<br \/>\nAnd that dopey red ballcap<br \/>\nGoodnight Russians<br \/>\nGoodnight chairs<br \/>\nGoodnight fat Korean kitten<br \/>\nAnd goodnight red Chinese mittens<br \/>\nGoodnight clocks<br \/>\nAnd goodnight fiscal locks<br \/>\nGoodnight to the Senate, maybe even the House<br \/>\nAnd good riddance, louses<br \/>\nGoodnight comb<br \/>\nAnd goodnight orange hair filled brush<br \/>\nGoodnight nobody<br \/>\nGoodnight tweeted mush<br \/>\nAnd goodnight to the first lady whispering \u201cDonald, hush\u201d<br \/>\nGoodnight alt facts<br \/>\nGoodnight corporate tax<br \/>\nGoodnight stars<br \/>\nGoodnight beltway hot air<br \/>\nGoodnight cable news noises everywhere<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2228.png\" alt=\"IMG_2228\" width=\"305\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2228.png 305w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2228-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2228-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2228-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2228-279x281.png 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least we are not at the point of this  . . .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2227.png\" alt=\"IMG_2227\" width=\"391\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2227.png 391w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2227-300x262.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2227-321x281.png 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2018 From My Isle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s note: Almost a year into our new, stranger times, it feels like we are living in some fictional spooky midwest town. We are beset with multiple sideshow investigative dramas alongside existential threats with childlike leaders trading insults across the oceans. It&#8217;s like we are living inside some poorly written and directed film and video [&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-17188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188","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=17188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17197,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions\/17197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}