{"id":266985,"date":"2017-12-22T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=266985"},"modified":"2017-12-22T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T20:06:16","slug":"christmas-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/christmas-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas Day, Christmas time, Christmas holidays, the 12 Days of Christmas, there are probably more poems, songs, books and movies written about those events than any other holiday in the world. One famous song\/poem that also has many parodies and humorous versions is The 12 Days of Christmas. I thought that idea has been done so many times that I would write, with respect for our separation of church and state, of 12 days celebrating democracy.
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\n12 DAYS OF CELEBRATING DEMOCRACY<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the 1st day of democracy celebration the nation joins together in jubilation for all the freedom that US citizenship brings to us<\/p>\n

on the 2nd day celebrate how great our separation of church and state<\/p>\n

on the 3rd day celebrate our three branches of government: judicial, executive, and legislative<\/p>\n

on the 4th day we have President FDR\u2019s Four Freedoms: the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want, and freedom from fear<\/p>\n

on the 5th day we celebrate the fifth amendment \u2013 indictment by a Grand Jury, double jeopardy, and due process.<\/p>\n

on the 6th day we celebrate D-Day, June 6th 1944 when over 160,000 allied soldiers landed in France to fight for democracy<\/p>\n

on the 7th day celebrate the end of the seven day work week and the beginning of the five day work week in the US between 1908 and 1919<\/p>\n

on the 8th day celebrate the eight hour day and \u201ca living wage\u201d<\/p>\n

on the 9th day we celebrate nine Supreme Court Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court<\/p>\n

on the 10th\u00a0day we celebrate the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, written by James Madison, also known as the Bill of Rights<\/p>\n

on the 11th day we celebrate Veteran\u2019s Day a holiday to honor all who have served in the U.S. Military Services.<\/p>\n

on the 12th we celebrate the birth of the 16th President of the US, Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809.
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\nCHAMORRO\u00a0 CHRISTMAS\u00a0 ACROSTIC<\/strong><\/p>\n

M – mampos mafute\u2019 misan tatalo\u2019 puengi
\nE – enkantao esperansa
\nR – rai yan raina
\nR – roskas yan bukayu
\nY – yetno yan yetna<\/p>\n

C – chikulati yan chiku
\nH – hagon suni yan hangon
\nR – rodo manok yan Tres Reyes
\nI – ilotes yan inaflitu na mannok
\nS – satdinas yan satmon
\nT – titiyas yan tinaktak
\nM – mampos meyas
\nA – afa\u2019maolek, adobu, adibina
\nS – sopas suni
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\nFelis Pasgua yan Anu\u2019 Nuebu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas Day, Christmas time, Christmas holidays, the 12 Days of Christmas, there are probably more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19552,19553,19554,19555],"class_list":["post-266985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-anu-nuebu","tag-four-freedoms","tag-grand-jury","tag-supreme-court-justices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266985","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}