{"id":305456,"date":"2019-08-07T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=305456"},"modified":"2019-08-07T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T20:00:29","slug":"food-for-thought-nursery-rhyme-naught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/food-for-thought-nursery-rhyme-naught\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought: Nursery Rhyme Naught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 Potato 2 Potato 3 Potato Not<\/strong><br \/>\nOne potato 2 potato 3 potatoes hot<br \/>\none fish taco two beef tacos<br \/>\nthree veggie tacos more<br \/>\nfive burritos six Cheetos hot<br \/>\nseven days tummy sore<br \/>\nate chimichangas gas last<br \/>\nnight till nine too much<br \/>\ncerveza will help till ten then<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Three Blind Mice Not<\/strong><br \/>\nThree blind taste mice every<br \/>\nMonday red beans and rice<br \/>\nsplash hot sauce splash more nice<br \/>\ncooked with Louisiana sausage hot<br \/>\nall morning long in a big old pot<br \/>\nsome red beans and rice advice<br \/>\nkeep the burner gas flames low<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Peas Porridge Hot Pot Not<\/strong><br \/>\noat meal porridge if you please<br \/>\nsteel cut Irish oats served hot<br \/>\nnot too tasty frozen or cold<br \/>\nadd honey or maple syrup \u00a0and milk<br \/>\nfor a filling breakfast meal of old<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Hey Diddle Diddle Not<\/strong><br \/>\nhot griddle griddle, the grease is in the pan<br \/>\nscrambled eggs omelette and bacon<br \/>\nsilver dollar pancakes for woman and man<br \/>\nyellow corn bread in the oven bakin<br \/>\nwhipped cream on strawberry shortcaken<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Jack and Jill Not<\/strong><br \/>\nJuan and Julia went up the hill<br \/>\nto a birthday party and had their fill<br \/>\nchocolate pudding in their dream<br \/>\nwith a bowl of chocolate mint ice cream<br \/>\nmelting on a cool carrot birthday cake<br \/>\ngingerbread man cookies on the bake<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Little Boy Blew His Horn Not<\/strong><br \/>\nLittle boy blew his horn not quite yet morn<br \/>\nthe cows were already in the meadow<br \/>\nand yes one heifer had a wrinkly horn<br \/>\nand afternoons when the sun cast its shadow<br \/>\nit made that cow look like a spotted unicorn.<br \/>\nLittle Boy Blue is using the avoidance approach<br \/>\nwith the Little Old Lady Who Lives In a Shoe<br \/>\nhe\u2019s also on the outs with Little Miss Muffet<br \/>\nhe asked Mary Mary how does your garden grow<br \/>\nshe said well Juana and I have a bumper crop<br \/>\nhere I\u2019ll let you try some light it up and puff it<br \/>\nif you get the munchies no need to save the roach.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Smile or Die? Gotta Wonder Why<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cGray skies are gonna clear up put on a happy face, brush off the clouds and cheer up, put on a happy face.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014lyric excerpt from a 1960 Broadway musical,<\/em> Bye Bye Birdie.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDoes the power of positive thinking leave you blinking<br \/>\ndo you think when things go bad you have to smile<br \/>\nsometimes life is just a sour lemon your prospects sinking<br \/>\nso why not let that contemporary reality sink in for a while.<\/p>\n<p>When things go wrong they may never go back right<br \/>\nthey will go back to something as they move ahead<br \/>\nwhat that will be may well be a long time out of sight<br \/>\nand may not come to realization till after you\u2019re dead.<\/p>\n<p>Face up to reality, deal with it when it comes your way<br \/>\nthere\u2019s no need for you to constantly \u201cput on a happy face\u201d<br \/>\nprogressive and positive thinking has its time and place<br \/>\ngrab the bull by the horns help yourself make it through the day.<\/p>\n<p>No need to constantly smile or say \u2018I\u2019m blessed\u2019 or \u2018your blessed\u2019<br \/>\nkeep flexible philosophically let barefaced reality be<br \/>\nconfessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Potato 2 Potato 3 Potato Not One potato 2 potato 3 potatoes hot one&#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-305456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305456","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=305456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}