{"id":285563,"date":"2018-09-28T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=285563"},"modified":"2018-09-28T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:00:42","slug":"to-catch-a-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/to-catch-a-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"To catch a thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vae Victus: Woe to the Conquered<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the victor belong the spoils.\u201d<br \/>\n\t\t             \u2014William L. Marcy, 1828<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTo catch a thief some wags say one must follow the money<br \/>\nto find corrupt practices in those with and without scruples<br \/>\nthey won\u2019t find their trials and jail terms one bit funny<br \/>\nwhether they absconded with greenbacks or Russian rubles<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the Big Apple and D.C. its Michael Cohen be knowin<br \/>\ndoing some serious trash talk on All the President\u2019s Men<br \/>\ntalking to prosecutors about crooks covers he\u2019s blowin<br \/>\nhe goes to see Special Counsel Mueller again and again<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith confessional tell all tattle tale truths Cohen blabs it all<br \/>\nand don\u2019t you know Donald Trump\u2019s jaws are getting tight<br \/>\nas inside NYC and DC courts and hallowed justice halls<br \/>\nCohen\u2019s ball busting testimony takes dogged bite after bite<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCohen tells tales of Trump\u2019s Russian dealing and collusion<br \/>\nwith hope for a reduced sentence he makes no illusion.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>The Joy of Lying and the Sorrow of Lies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.\u201d<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t      \u2014Mark Twain<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe bigly lying media said this twice yesterday<br \/>\nmost my empty head is bald what is left is gray<br \/>\nand big crows feet stretch from my beady eyes<br \/>\nI\u2019ve become quite allergic to all my hair dyes<br \/>\nsome lies are infinitely large some pretty small<br \/>\nI\u2019ve told so many I can\u2019t remember them all<br \/>\nmy head can not say no as most truth it negates<br \/>\nthe minute I tell\u00a0 a whopper another one waits<br \/>\ntime passes swiftly I tell more again and again<br \/>\nproudly signing executive orders with my pen<br \/>\nI\u2019m pained by truth and proud of prevarication<br \/>\nas I rattle off lies in many place and situation<br \/>\noh those lies, so smart, coming out of my head<br \/>\ntime flies, truth departs, gone now till I\u2019m dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vae Victus: Woe to the Conquered \u201cTo the victor belong the spoils.\u201d \u2014William L. Marcy,&#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":[22823,21462,21860,22605],"class_list":["post-285563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-big-apple","tag-mark-twain","tag-michael-cohen","tag-special-counsel-mueller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285563","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=285563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}