{"id":267222,"date":"2017-12-29T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=267222"},"modified":"2017-12-29T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:00:47","slug":"yearend-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/yearend-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearend musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Comestible Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\nJanuary brought the sherry, champagne, beer, and wine<br \/>\nFebruary creaming chocolate fondue for valentines<br \/>\nMarch mint and lamb chops came with winds of change<br \/>\nApril foolish speckled trout turned up in soup so strange<br \/>\nMay greens stir fried into a Chinese cabbage creation<br \/>\nJune brides wedding cakes walk from college graduation<br \/>\nJuly lemonade stands up and sweet corn pastknee high<br \/>\nAugust watermelon breaking open so ripe you have to try<br \/>\nSeptember school bells bring golden apples in a bin<br \/>\nOctober pumpkin pies full of cloves and cinnamon<br \/>\nNovember turkeys run around in cold freezing rains<br \/>\nDecember Christmas cookies and little candy canes<br \/>\nAs this twelve month food cycle deliciously passes<br \/>\nMake baking time for cookies, ginger and molasses<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Yearly Pleasures of Monthly Measures<\/strong><br \/>\nJanuary cold spell starts the year<br \/>\nFebruary hearts love devotion<br \/>\nMarch hares dream of warmth<br \/>\nApril fools cause a commotion<br \/>\nMay bees bumbling soon<br \/>\nJune heat lightening for sure<br \/>\nJuly stalks of corn shoot high<br \/>\nAugust lazy day catfish lure<br \/>\nSeptember apples fall in a barrel<br \/>\nOctober leaves cider going fast<br \/>\nNovember needs some tender turkeys<br \/>\nDecember candy canes don\u2019t last<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wash. D.C. Comic and Tragic Predictions 2018<\/strong><br \/>\nWho really cares about all those political predictions<br \/>\nas DJT continues his shameful autocratic predilections<br \/>\nThere will be a new best selling non-alcoholic beer called<br \/>\n\u2018Lying Meadia\u2019 its slogan is,\u201cYou can\u2019t get drunk here\u201d<br \/>\nThe distinct possibility of hypocritical hypotheticals<br \/>\nRoy Moore will form a church for pedophile evangelicals<br \/>\nTrump 2020 campaign sends doctored footage to media<br \/>\nshowing huge inauguration crowds in a video encyclopedia<br \/>\nDonald Jr. forms a legal Russian immigrant soccer team<br \/>\nhis \u2018Russian Bear Rubles\u2019 mascot sells \u201845\u2019vodka ice cream<br \/>\nTweety will continue tweeting nonsense as he sees fit<br \/>\na demagogic narcissistic bull preaching in a Wall St. pulpit<br \/>\nMore true predictions to come soon after they take place<br \/>\nthey are the only way my prognostications can save face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comestible Calendar January brought the sherry, champagne, beer, and wine February creaming chocolate fondue for&#8230;<\/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":[19597,19598,19599,19600],"class_list":["post-267222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-comestible-calendar","tag-donald-jr","tag-lying-meadia","tag-russian-bear-rubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267222","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=267222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}