{"id":712,"date":"2013-01-20T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T02:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=712"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:05:58","slug":"raging-grannies-are-conspiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/raging-grannies-are-conspiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Raging Grannies Are Conspiring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><em>by Laurie Rostholder<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>tune: I\u2019ve Been Working on the Railroad<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Raging Grannies are conspiring<br>\nTo make their audience laugh.<br>\nSatire is so very frightening<br>\nIt\u2019s clearly a (speak) TERRORIST path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to their conversation.<br>\nThey speak of peace not war.<br>\nAnti-Bush recriminations-<br>\nThey always go too far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metal in their hips,<br>\nMetal in their knees,<br>\nThey&#8217;re hiding weapons<br>\nNo one can see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have found them out,<br>\nKnow what they&#8217;re all about,<br>\nA peace and social justice<br>\nCon-spir-acy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone&#8217;s singing for justice,<br>\nSomeone&#8217;s singing for an end to war,<br>\nSomeone&#8217;s singing for fairness,<br>\nScaring us to the core&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We\u2019re scared of:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gaggles of grannies singing their song<br>\nGaggles of grannies make us quake,<br>\nGaggles of grannies must be watched<br>\nOur country is at stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grannies with their hats<br>\nA bunch of old bats<br>\nScaring us with<br>\nWhat they sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they ever stay in tune<br>\nThat will surely spell our doom<br>\nSpreading freedom and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re Raging<br>Grannies singing for justice,<br>Grannies singing for an end to war,<br>Grannies singing for fairness<br>World Peace Forevermore!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raging Grannies are conspiring To make their audience laugh. Satire is so very frightening It\u2019s clearly a (speak) TERRORIST path. Listen to their conversation. They speak of peace not war. Anti-Bush recriminations- They always go too far. Metal in their hips, Metal in their knees, They&#8217;re hiding weapons No one can see. We have found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}