{"id":236167,"date":"2016-09-11T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T08:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=236167"},"modified":"2016-09-11T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T08:10:24","slug":"poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A kinder gentler trumpet voluntary?<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Joseph Connolly<\/p>\n<p>real regret? did he give back the Purple Heart?<br \/>\napologize to Mr. and Mrs. Khan for what he<br \/>\ndescribed as a \u201cvicious attack\u201d on their part<br \/>\ndecide to let babies cry while he is speaking<br \/>\nstop kicking brown skinned people wearing<br \/>\nt &#8211; shirts supporting him out of his rallies<br \/>\nabsolutely refuse to ever use these  NON<br \/>\nPRESIDENTIAL phrases again, \u201cbig loser\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019d like to punch him in the face.\u201d \u201c knock<br \/>\nthe crap out of him.\u201d and refrain from constantly<br \/>\nrepeating words and phrases in his stump speeches.<br \/>\nits to the point it sounds like his vinyl record got stuck<br \/>\nor a tape loop in his memory bank is malfunctioning;<br \/>\n\u201cextreme,extreme; I am what I am; I regret it and I regret it\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Self annointed &#8216;puffed airhead king&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Joseph Connolly<\/p>\n<p>well we have puffed corn, puffed wheat, and puffed rice<br \/>\nBurger King, Boudin King, Billie Jean and Donald King<br \/>\nwouldn\u2019t a thrice married \u2018Puffed Airhead King\u2019 be nice<br \/>\nD.T. stylish orange yellow popcorn hair and lots of bling<br \/>\nBeware! he\u2019s a bigot, he\u2019s a bully, he\u2019s belligerent at best<br \/>\n\u201ca walking contradiction\u201d and dangerous when he Tweets<br \/>\nhe gives the slightest form of criticism absolutely no rest<br \/>\nsounds like a robo call with his constant one liner repeats<br \/>\nthis privileged panderer is constantly changing his position<br \/>\nbad mouthing Sen.McCain, dead vets, families of war heroes<br \/>\ncan\u2019t seem to make a thoughtful temperamental transition<br \/>\nwinding up with grandiose guffaws as political party zeroes<br \/>\nof this bombastic jerk ball candidate not enough has been said<br \/>\n\u201cI Alone Can Do It\u201d crowned himself \u2018King Puffed Air Head\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired CNMI PSS teacher who taught English on Tinian and Saipan from 1984 to 2014. He currently enjoys studying cosmology, Asian poetry, and life on Tinian.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kinder gentler trumpet voluntary? By Joseph Connolly real regret? did he give back the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13320,13321,13322,13323],"class_list":["post-236167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-boudin-king","tag-non","tag-puffed-airhead-king","tag-purple-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}