{"id":11292,"date":"2026-04-14T07:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=9785"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:49:43","slug":"statue-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/statue-of-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tax deadline neared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What remained of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">doddering Uncle Sam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">crawled to collect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Statue of Liberty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">stood on a sidewalk,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">wearing a sandwich board sign<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">advertising a tax special courtesy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of a chain preparer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw Lady Liberty&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a man,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sunglasses and loafers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a Coos Bay homeless man,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">smiling, waving the torch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with panache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He looked high<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but at least not vacant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tax preparer had hired him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lady Liberty had a job!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paid in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9 to 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Standing all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even in rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A huddled mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coffee and corn dogs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">delivered by a homeless buddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How that rogue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">handshake hiring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">came to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">reveals the secret formula<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to solve homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax deadline neared. What remained of doddering Uncle Sam crawled to collect. The Statue of Liberty stood on a sidewalk, wearing a sandwich board sign advertising a tax special courtesy of a chain preparer. I saw Lady Liberty&#8217;s face. It was a man, sunglasses and loafers, a Coos Bay homeless man, smiling, waving the torch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}