{"id":279164,"date":"2018-07-02T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=279164"},"modified":"2018-07-02T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T20:00:56","slug":"tempus-fugit-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tempus-fugit-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempus fugit trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TIME FLIES HOW SWEET THE FLEET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\t                        <strong> \u2014 James Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I live from day to day the older man said<br \/>\nwe have all heard that many times before<br \/>\nnow the happy soul resides with the dead<br \/>\nthere are no sunny days for him any more.<br \/>\nIt was the same routine year after year<br \/>\nthe drive back and forth long commuting<br \/>\nafter work grocery shopping a cold beer<br \/>\nthen less driving when he began computing.<br \/>\nSummer vacations broke the monotony<br \/>\ntwo weeks camping in a National Park<br \/>\nweekend barbecues he practiced gluttony<br \/>\ngazed at planets and stars out in the dark.<br \/>\nTempus fugit, time flies when you are having fun<br \/>\ntill death draws a final curtain across the sun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MUERTE DE UNA MOSCA, DEATH OF A FLY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI heard a fly buzz\u2014when I died\u2014the stillness<br \/>\nin the room was like the stillness in the air.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n                <strong> \u2014Emily Dickinson, American poet, (1830 -1886)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They get a lot noisier as they grow older<br \/>\nthey seem to like to bite when they are smaller<br \/>\nthe smell of meat makes them grow bolder<br \/>\nin and around waste matter they like to wallow<br \/>\nthere are none around till you sit down<br \/>\nthen they come out in numbers to surprise<br \/>\nyou landing on your glass but never drown<br \/>\nthey see you coming with their multiple eyes<br \/>\nyour favorite delicious foods for them is fodder<br \/>\nuntil you nail them with your plastic fly swatter<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIME ROTTEN and DEATH MISBEGOTTEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c I will not heed the prejudice of nose, comparisons of<br \/>\ncarrion and rose.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\t\t\t    \u2013 Anna Wickham (1884 -1947)<\/p>\n<p>After typhoons driving down coral roads in Micronesia<br \/>\nthe smell of dead cats and dogs comes from the bushes<br \/>\nthese overwhelming odors may give you dire dyskinesia<br \/>\nrepulsive smells cause out of the mouth vomit gushes.<br \/>\nRoast goat and suckling pigs on a spit smell great<br \/>\ntheir succulent s\\mell wafts from a long way off<br \/>\nget some crispy skin as you balutan your plate<br \/>\nhave an ice cold beer and enjoy the rest of the day.<br \/>\nDown deep in the ground a carcass rots away<br \/>\nas the mealy worms do their job making soil rich<br \/>\nin and out its nose the worms crawl and play<br \/>\nup above the smell makes you rub your nose and itch<br \/>\neven though a dog\u2019s sense of smell is better than ours<br \/>\nyou can smell carrion flesh for hours and hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIME FLIES HOW SWEET THE FLEET \u201c It matters not how a man dies, but&#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":[21771,21772,21773,21774],"class_list":["post-279164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-anna-wickham","tag-emily-dickinson","tag-james-boswell","tag-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279164","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=279164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}