{"id":276679,"date":"2018-05-24T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=276679"},"modified":"2018-05-24T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:00:07","slug":"literary-nook-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/literary-nook-3\/","title":{"rendered":"LITERARY NOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CNMI HS GRADUATION 2018  Q&amp;A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA sonnet where students are asked and tasked<br \/>\nto give some thought about the free education they<br \/>\nhave received and mature teen age thought they have<br \/>\njust today conceived, and is now to be believed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What you gonna say about today\u2019s graduation?<br \/>\nHow you gonna grade \/assess your own education?<br \/>\nWhat you gonna do about your present situation?<br \/>\nworking out boyfriend \/girlfriends complications?<\/p>\n<p>Are you going off island or are you staying here?<br \/>\nWhats your future plans? What do you want or need?<br \/>\nWill you drink in more knowledge or more cold beer?<br \/>\nWill you be driving fast cars and smoking local weed?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the most important thing in life? Can you guess?<br \/>\nMy mother always said it was good health and happiness<br \/>\nWe all need food, clothing, and shelter, and lots of love<br \/>\nIt can come from friends &amp; family or from heaven up above.<\/p>\n<p>No matter where you go, no matter what you gonna do<br \/>\nRemember love &amp; kindness; To your own self be true!<\/p>\n<p><strong>HS EDUCATION YESTERDAY TODAY and TOMORROW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNot all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014U.S. President Harry S. Truman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you turn what for some is formal education\u2019s last page<br \/>\nyou think about the past, present, all the long tomorrows<br \/>\nas you get your diploma walking across the graduation stage<br \/>\nwith memories of  friends, family, happiness and sorrows.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember when Juan got in trouble and Maria did this<br \/>\nthat party at the beach when you first got drunk drinking beer<br \/>\nwhen you finally got serious enough and gave your first kiss<br \/>\nwhen you were scared to drive when learning how to steer?<\/p>\n<p>Today is going like a flash, time slips away, a comet in the sky<br \/>\nyou may ask yourself  \u201cI wonder why? I really wonder why?\u201d<br \/>\nToday you\u2019ll get words of wisdom from parents and teachers<br \/>\nand wisecracks and jokes from those up in the bleachers.<\/p>\n<p>KEEP LEARNING FOREVER, keep learning your whole life<br \/>\nlearn to teach others, sisters, brothers, children, husband or wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI HS GRADUATION 2018 Q&amp;A \u201cA sonnet where students are asked and tasked to give&#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":[37,42,21,223],"class_list":["post-276679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-education-2","tag-food","tag-life","tag-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276679","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=276679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}