{"id":277249,"date":"2018-06-01T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=277249"},"modified":"2018-06-01T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:00:51","slug":"flores-de-mayu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/flores-de-mayu\/","title":{"rendered":"Flores de Mayu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Flores Mayu in Sight<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are still bananas outside my eastern windows<br \/>\nmost outside the kitchen window have been eaten now gone<br \/>\nnew sprouts are growing where others got whacked down<br \/>\nsprouts seem to shoot up where some westerly wind blows.<\/p>\n<p>Chunge\u2019 birds wheel above and soar in pairs<br \/>\nin bridal white above the Australian pines<br \/>\nflying in tandem taking care of their own affairs<br \/>\nof their young offspring one rarely sees any signs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGeckos climb house windows and walls inside and out<br \/>\nlittle gray and green scampering acrobats of derring-do<br \/>\ngetting evening meals on the windows with nary a shout<br \/>\nthere are a lot less little flying insects when they\u2019re through.<\/p>\n<p>May flowers in sight flame trees are starting to bloom<br \/>\nthe ground will have a beautiful orange carpet very soon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>May Flowers and Mango Showers<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0Yes, indeed there seems to be plenty of May flowers<br \/>\nseems to be more blooms than in the month before<br \/>\nYes, April is supposed to be the month for showers<br \/>\nand now showers of mangoes cover the jungle floor.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWe\u2019re up to our ears in hundreds of mango droppings<br \/>\nbanana stalks and a variety of citrus trees do the same<br \/>\nthe abundance of other island fruits is not stopping<br \/>\nfor this fruit not to be gathered and eaten is a shame.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFlores mayu, flores rosa, yan bula puti tainobiu<br \/>\nblossom by the roadsides and on people\u2019s lawns<br \/>\nflower with other names in botanical encyclopedias<br \/>\nmake the island mas bunita yan bunitu at every dawn.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLook up in the sky watch out while walking you go<br \/>\nYou might get hit on the head by a falling mango!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flores Mayu in Sight There are still bananas outside my eastern windows most outside the&#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":[67],"class_list":["post-277249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277249","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=277249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}