{"id":310059,"date":"2019-10-16T06:06:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=310059"},"modified":"2019-10-16T06:06:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:06:40","slug":"getting-the-most-out-of-t-o-a-s-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/getting-the-most-out-of-t-o-a-s-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the most out of T.O.A.S.T."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T.O.A.S.T. &#8211; Timeless Old Age Senior Tales<br \/>\nTOAST &#8211; is a sonnet series; an old age roast<br \/>\nTOAST &#8211; a daily morning bread<br \/>\nTOAST \u2013 a drink to honor someone\u2019s head<br \/>\nTOAST &#8211; you are done with it, it is dead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>She Knows When the Rooster Crows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0My wife said do you hear the rooster crowing<br \/>\nI do but can\u2019t see outside it is still very dark<br \/>\nget up though its time for sowing and growing \u00a0<br \/>\nrise up and soar with the morning meadow lark.<br \/>\nVenus is shining brightly in the Eastern sky<br \/>\na pair of pure white chung\u00e9 birds just flew by<br \/>\nmaybe the rooster is crowing about love past<br \/>\nand all the biddy hens that he can remember<br \/>\nour love seems strong enough that it will last<br \/>\nas we grow old, cold, and snowy like December<br \/>\nI know you still love and care for me she said<br \/>\nI love the sonnet you wrote about us yesterday<br \/>\nso rest a little longer and come back to bed<br \/>\nlike rooster and hen we crow, cackle, and play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Elegy for an Unseen Senior Selfie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> \u201cWherever there is life, there must be death,<br \/>\nsooner or later we\u2019ll breathe our last breath.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Chinese poet Tao Qian (365-427), Six Dynasties<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThese days people know we are alive by reading our posts<br \/>\nwhere in the world is my senior SELFIE being seen so far away<br \/>\nwhen we are not on line we become like cyber ghosts<br \/>\nif its not DELETEd repeatedly on line how long will it stay.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook friends show themselves and family on vacation<br \/>\nwith some gain, some loss of privacy, if I don\u2019t see I can\u2019t care<br \/>\ndeleting presence of others after assessing each situation<br \/>\nmy phone and PC are off line so now no button to SHARE.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of MEMES, posts and REPLYs will pass away<br \/>\nmusic from guitars, vinyl records and old radio transistors<br \/>\nalong with offline memories of friends yesterday and today<br \/>\nacoustic, baroque, and classical music brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>Cyber space is filled with meaningful and nonsense MEMES<br \/>\nSELFIES get lost and then forgotten in our real life daydreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T.O.A.S.T. &#8211; Timeless Old Age Senior Tales TOAST &#8211; is a sonnet series; an old&#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-310059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310059","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=310059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}