{"id":270568,"date":"2018-02-22T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=270568"},"modified":"2018-02-22T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T20:00:29","slug":"poetic-penance-presidential-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/poetic-penance-presidential-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetic Penance on Presidential Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m Not Giving Up Trump for Lent<\/strong><br \/>\nSatiric sonnets about Pres. 45 are time well spent<br \/>\nin fact they provide me with a sort of catharsis<br \/>\nso I\u2019m not giving up writing about Trump for Lent<br \/>\nand will monitor his malignant metamorphosis<br \/>\n\u00a0Its like the child who loves candy and cookies<br \/>\nbut says he\u2019ll give up licorice and fruit cake<br \/>\nsince he never eats either one of these<br \/>\nand wants to continue his sweet tooth intake<br \/>\n\u00a0We have all done it from time to time<br \/>\ngiving up something we don\u2019t care about<br \/>\nas a poet I enjoy writing words that rhyme<br \/>\nDonald Trump is a perfect target no doubt<br \/>\n\u00a0I\u2019ll continue dealing in derision during Lent<br \/>\nabout the tragic times of our 45th\u00a0US president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Days of Wrath Mueller on the Warpath<\/strong><br \/>\nLatin language leads the way deconstructing the Dies Irae<br \/>\n45 says he\u2019ll meet Mueller, promises an oath he\u2019ll be taking<br \/>\n\u201cQuantus tremor est futurus\u201d- How great will be the quaking<br \/>\nHow many careers thrown under the bus?<br \/>\n\u201cQuando judex est venturus\u201d- When the judge will come<br \/>\nWill Trump not remember and play dumb?<br \/>\n\u201cCuncta stricte discussurus\u201d- Investigating everything strictly<br \/>\nMueller wants questions answered explicitly and specifically<br \/>\n\u201cJudex ergo cum sedebit\u201d &#8211; When therefore the Judge will sit<br \/>\nguarantee he won\u2019t put up with 45\u2019s bulls\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cQuidquid latet apparebit\u201d &#8211; Whatever lies hidden will appear<br \/>\nand 45 won\u2019t be grinning from ear to ear<br \/>\n\u201cNil inultum remanebit\u201d- nothing will remain unpunished<br \/>\nand Mueller is nowhere near finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Not Giving Up Trump for Lent Satiric sonnets about Pres. 45 are time well&#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":[20187,6468,320],"class_list":["post-270568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-dies-irae","tag-donald-trump","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270568","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=270568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}