{"id":239028,"date":"2016-10-25T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=239028"},"modified":"2016-10-25T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:00:50","slug":"keats-inspired-sonnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/keats-inspired-sonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Keats-inspired sonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Trumpty Dumpty and the Hill<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nthe politics of dirty laundry seems to be never dead<br \/>\nwhen all huge missteps and mistakes are hung to dry<br \/>\nnot hidden in political back rooms with hope they die<br \/>\nfrom network channels and social media to your head<br \/>\nTrumpty\u2019s campaign used dirty laundry trying to lead<br \/>\nthroughout this past summer and he\u2019s not yet done<br \/>\nwith his insults and lies that\u2019s the way its being run<br \/>\nbegun with the wall ended August in Mexico yes indeed<br \/>\npolitics of pandering, pivoting, and power ceases never<br \/>\neven the Big Fail of Hillary and her endless email tale<br \/>\nwith the Republicans desire to keep it going on forever<br \/>\nso into the last months of the POTUS election they sail<br \/>\nand it seems to most folks and voters in the general public<br \/>\nsomething has\u00a0 gone horribly wrong in our great republic<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>John Keat\u2019s sonnet title (from 1816) 200 years ago:\u00a0On The Grasshopper &amp; Cricket.<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Blue States and Red! White Stripes and Hypes<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBlue states mostly on the East and West coast<br \/>\nwonder if a geopolitical proximity to salt water<br \/>\nchanges a Republican son or a Democrat daughter<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s the difference between a red and blue boast<br \/>\nRed states are mostly in the middle of the country\u00a0<br \/>\nthe mighty Mississippi and wide Missouri rivers<br \/>\nprovide drainage for many Red states down to the<br \/>\nthe Gulf of Mexico where they roll and flow<br \/>\nGreen states don\u2019t control any one state completely<br \/>\nRed and Blue states have multiple environmental concerns<br \/>\nunpolluted municipal water supplies begin to deplete<br \/>\nsolar power rises there is an increase in wind turbines<br \/>\nall fifty states still have their boundaries but how great<br \/>\nwill they be when Trumpty Dumpty changes their fate<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Keats sonnet title: Blue! \u2019Tis The Life of Heaven, The Domain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey \u201cPepe Baton\u201d Connolly<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Special to the Saipan Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Trumpty Dumpty and the Hill \u00a0 the politics of dirty laundry seems to be&#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":[13926,676,50,13876],"class_list":["post-239028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-john-keat","tag-mexico","tag-power","tag-trumpty-dumpty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239028","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=239028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}