{"id":31670,"date":"2018-10-04T10:23:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=31670"},"modified":"2018-11-12T22:39:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:39:58","slug":"tax-cheat-circus-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/10\/tax-cheat-circus-king.html","title":{"rendered":"Tax Cheat Circus King"},"content":{"rendered":"

A poem received from an unnamed source with an illustration from the NY Times.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/a>  America\u2019s top shitholer goes
\n  whole hog<\/a> at the public trough,
\n  and never mind the rest of us,
\n  because that is the hog’s nature.
\n  A silly grin when he licks his lips,
\n  a scowl like a lout’s mustache\u2014
\n  the toadstool dick, the hellish
\n  grunts, the squeals, the bogus
\n  outrage of the ring, all are brazen
\n  matches for his silly pompadour.
\n  We crowned him circus king,
\n  our technicolor conman\u2014
\n  we shamed ourselves
\n  enabling such a shameless thing. <\/strong>
\n                  Anonymous<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A poem received from an unnamed source with an illustration from the NY Times.   America\u2019s top shitholer goes   whole hog at the public trough,   and never mind the rest of us,   because that is the hog’s nature.   A silly grin when he licks his lips,   a scowl like a lout’s mustache\u2014   the toadstool dick, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-news","9":"category-political-culture","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/trump-tax-cheat.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8eO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32087,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670\/revisions\/32087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}