{"id":4684,"date":"2026-10-04T04:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:14:58","slug":"sunday-verses-mango-madness-10-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4684","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Mango Madness’ (10\/4\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember when America’s watchword was HOPE, \/ and our leader was young, \/ so fit and whip-smart, too, \/ a family man, decent, faithful and true?<\/p>\n

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‘MANGO MADNESS’ (2024), acrylic on canvas, by T. G. Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now we’ve had ten long years of LIES, \/ a new gilded age that hasn’t made us great, \/ but it let a geezer who’s greedy and fat \/ be the world’s biggest asshat.<\/p>\n

He thinks he’s the KING of the world, \/ and I’m sure he is in his own mind, at least; \/ he is <\/em>like Leonardo and Lil Pip, \/ each guy going down with his sinking ship.<\/p>\n

I blame all of us, not just the MAGA crowd, \/ because even if we didn’t fly his flags \/ and vote for the louse, \/ we chose poorly for the Senate and House.<\/p>\n

There is one Group Of People, though, \/ that should shoulder much of the fault — \/ all who ignored the rule of law \/ and gave a thief the keys to the vault.<\/p>\n

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By RAHN ADAMS Remember when America’s watchword was HOPE, \/ and our leader was young, \/ so fit and whip-smart, too, \/ a family man, decent, faithful and true? Now we’ve had ten long years of LIES, \/ a new gilded age that hasn’t made us great, \/ but it let a geezer who’s greedy … Continue reading SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Mango Madness’ (10\/4\/2026)<\/span><\/a><\/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-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}