{"id":238775,"date":"2016-10-20T06:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=238775"},"modified":"2016-10-20T06:06:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:06:54","slug":"trumpophobia-trifling-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trumpophobia-trifling-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpophobia: A trifling fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>when I have fears that Trump may POTUS be<br \/>\nwhen his demagoguery befuddles my brain<br \/>\nfrom before he even started to insult Hillary<br \/>\nusing conspiracy theories in a constant chain\u00a0<br \/>\nwhen I hear the words coming out of his face<br \/>\nirrational pronouncements of his latest advance<br \/>\nand know their veiled origins unable to trace<br \/>\nall gobbledygook and drivel meaning left to chance<br \/>\nand when I think I just can\u2019t stand another hour<br \/>\nof him on the tube hoping I shall see him no more<br \/>\nand never need to think about him being in power<br \/>\nreflecting what political campaigns were like before<br \/>\nthe Trumposphere I must write and have to\u00a0\u00a0think<br \/>\nhis confusing thought and convoluted ideas stink<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>John Keat\u2019s original sonnet title is: \u201cWhen I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be\/\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Great are the States! I might be content<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\ngreat are the States! and I might just be content<br \/>\nto love this great country that we call our own<br \/>\nto hear Americana music in cyberspace blown<br \/>\nbut I must work, buy food, pay taxes, and the rent<br \/>\nJohn Keats,\u201cyet do I sometimes feel a languishment\u201d<br \/>\nfor a Supreme Court with its complement of nine<br \/>\nstifled by Republicans who stall before election time<br \/>\nand forget what our Constitutional founders meant<br \/>\ngreat are the states but in D.C. confusion still reigns<br \/>\nenough of their puerile petty partisan politics for me<br \/>\nand empty campaign promises from Trumpty Dumpty<br \/>\npivots on positions, panders, and constantly complains<br \/>\ngreat are the States! and I might just be content<br \/>\nthis Fall when we elect our first woman president<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>John Keats original sonnet title is: \u201cHappy Is England! I Could Be Content\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when I have fears that Trump may POTUS be when his demagoguery befuddles my brain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[13842,13844,50,13876],"class_list":["post-238775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-style","category-opinion","tag-john-keats","tag-potus","tag-power","tag-trumpty-dumpty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238775","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=238775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}