{"id":291014,"date":"2018-12-28T06:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=291014"},"modified":"2018-12-28T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:06:30","slug":"all-i-got-for-christmas-was-a-colonoscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/all-i-got-for-christmas-was-a-colonoscopy\/","title":{"rendered":"All I Got for Christmas was a Colonoscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day before Christmas fortune gave to me<br \/>\na present you may find quite difficult to believe<br \/>\nI was scheduled for surgery, my third colonoscopy<br \/>\nto be completed on the morn of Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of down the chimney Santa\u2019s helper is going<br \/>\nup the drain pipe to check maybe cut some polyps<br \/>\nwhere all that funky waste matter has been flowing<br \/>\na place dark as the night of a total lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>Oh boy what a present! guess its what I needed<br \/>\nit won\u2019t be Santa himself but done by young Dr. Chen<br \/>\nto his sage advice I paid attention and I heeded<br \/>\nhoped for mercy of Buddha and the wisdom of Zen.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this tale of my tail didn\u2019t make you heave<br \/>\nit really happened to me on last Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Twas A Politically Correct Lonely Night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Twas the night before a politically correct \u2018happy holiday\u2019<br \/>\nand all through the Trumpty Dumpty White House<br \/>\na lonely, childish, bully, narcissist was Tweeting<br \/>\nboth thumbs moving no need for a wireless mouse<br \/>\nhis base was dwindling most were quite disappointed<br \/>\nwith Trump\u2019s favorite TV channel and stories on FOX<br \/>\nDemocratic candidates had Republicans disjointed<br \/>\nin a blue wave that emerged out of a populist box<br \/>\nlast election\u2019s losers weren\u2019t showing up to work<br \/>\nthe stock market was heading in a downward trend<br \/>\nall going over the head of the bigly lying jerk who<br \/>\nwill close down government if Dems don\u2019t spend<br \/>\ntwas a bleak holiday season and all over the TVs<br \/>\ntrials and sentencing for Manafort and 2 Mikees<br \/>\nand what to those glued to their cell phones did appear<br \/>\nbut investigations from all sides leaving 45 in fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day before Christmas fortune gave to me a present you may find quite&#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":[],"class_list":["post-291014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291014","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=291014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}