{"id":11325,"date":"2026-03-16T09:24:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=11325"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:24:50","slug":"mud-slingers-a-poem-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/mud-slingers-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"MUD-SLINGERS — a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"

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#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n

MUD-SLINGERS <\/p>\n

by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n

01-16-2023<\/p>\n

Oh just see those mud-slingers,
\nThey are all having quite a day,
\nBut if you are smart, tune it out,
\nDon\u2019t listen to a word they say.<\/p>\n

Oh how they love digging up dirt,
\nTo make their opponents bleed,
\nBut as for issues we care about,
\nThey avoid like the plague indeed.<\/p>\n

They do anything to get your vote,
\nYes, even character assassination,
\nThey ignore the important things,
\nWhich is their one true obligation.<\/p>\n

So when some pol comes to town,
\nStrive to keep that guy on track,
\nAnd if he won\u2019t answer questions,
\nTell him he is not welcome back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#Poetry #Poem MUD-SLINGERS by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 01-16-2023 Oh just see those mud-slingers, They are all having quite a day, But if you are smart, tune it out, Don\u2019t listen to a word they say. Oh how they love digging … Continue reading →<\/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":[4772,3],"tags":[20,21,22,394,3627,139,135,134,30,2311,2309,3628,1219,3629],"class_list":["post-11325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-poetry","tag-bill-kochman","tag-bills-bible-basics","tag-christian","tag-debate","tag-mud-slingers","tag-original","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-politician","tag-politicians","tag-sling-mud","tag-vote","tag-voters"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39247,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions\/39247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}