{"id":256,"date":"2025-04-06T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/?p=256"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:21:55","slug":"tariffs-and-a-slingshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/2025\/04\/06\/tariffs-and-a-slingshot\/","title":{"rendered":"tariffs and a slingshot and a little boy toy box&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tariffs and a slingshot and a little boy toy box&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>his little boy ailments make up excuses for multitudes of tariffs to hurl&#8230;<br \/>\nsince so many places won&#8217;t praise him he&#8217;s mad at far more in the world!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s tried rearranging charred marbles to look like earth&#8217;s circular map&#8230;<br \/>\nblowing his fancied opponents away with his hissy fit hot air attacks!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>he lays out fake claims and toy figures to play in his bait and switch games&#8230;<br \/>\nmutely calling all gullible ones &#8216;losers&#8217; or loudly all discerning ones &#8216;lame&#8217;!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>he reenacts old matinee gangster flicks where mob bosses pull their scams&#8230;<br \/>\nfrom provocation onto blackmail and into coarse extortion commands!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>his carton of felt tip markers fills a craving for an amazing signature look&#8230;<br \/>\nthey puff up his name much better than pens in his cursive practice books!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>he backpedals his rules for &#8216;simon says&#8217; using a quiet sigh or a megaphone&#8230;<br \/>\nas he flips his motionless puppets into a lonelier gilded room at his home!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>he calls that last strike a wild pitch as his whiff swings the bat on his buns&#8230;<br \/>\nhis ego fibs to steal bases and then hit the greatest grand slam home runs!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s crowned himself king of some mountaintop with no rivals ever found&#8230;<br \/>\njust a bogus pride inside his mind that keeps this one-man bout around!&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(more to come)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tariffs and a slingshot and a little boy toy box&#8230; his little boy ailments make up excuses for multitudes of tariffs to hurl&#8230; since so many places won&#8217;t praise him he&#8217;s mad at far more in the world!&#8230; he&#8217;s tried rearranging charred marbles to look like earth&#8217;s circular map&#8230; blowing his fancied opponents away with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}