{"id":993,"date":"2013-01-27T17:57:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T01:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=993"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:12:22","slug":"voters-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/voters-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>by Kay Thode <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>tune: St. James Infirmary<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, I went to the poll booth<br \/>\nAnd what did I see<br \/>\nBut a ballot so peculiar<br \/>\nThat it puzzled me.<br \/>\nI punched out the holes<br \/>\nAs best as I could,<br \/>\nCause I didn\u2019t want Bush,<br \/>\nI knew where I stood\u2026Democratic.<\/p>\n<p>When the votes were all counted,<br \/>\nAl Gore he had won,<br \/>\nBut the new president<br \/>\nIs George Bush\u2019s son\u2026How can that be?<\/p>\n<p>So this is what we gotta do,<br \/>\nTo stop that man from carrying through<br \/>\nHis plan to wreck the environment,<br \/>\nAnd end the right to choose,<br \/>\nAnd give us all the blues\u2026Real Blues.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve gotta get together and unite,<br \/>\nBlack, brown and yellow, red and white;<br \/>\nWork like H to prevent<br \/>\nGeorge from carrying out his intent\u2026Together, united!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kay Thode tune: St. James Infirmary Oh, I went to the poll booth And what did I see But a ballot so peculiar That it puzzled me. I punched out the holes As best as I could, Cause I didn\u2019t want Bush, I knew where I stood\u2026Democratic. When the votes were all counted, Al [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,89],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}