{"id":324057,"date":"2020-06-02T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=324057"},"modified":"2020-06-02T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:00:38","slug":"d-r-e-a-m-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/d-r-e-a-m-s\/","title":{"rendered":"D.R.E.A.M.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cNo wonder stars are winking<br \/>\nNo wonder heaven mocks<br \/>\nAt men who cease from drinking<br \/>\nGood booze because of clocks\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1878 -1957<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Dream Drunkard Dream<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cLast call,\u201d bartenders all over often say<br \/>\ncustomers drink up and order a few more<br \/>\nspending much of their hard-earned pay<br \/>\nthen buy more booze going out the door<br \/>\npanic hit on the way home when I thought\u00a0<br \/>\ndrunk as I may be at home there is no booze<br \/>\nstumbling into a mom &amp; pop store I bought<br \/>\nnow I can drink to oblivion if I so choose<br \/>\nhopefully next time you pass out when drunk<br \/>\nin a comfortable place or pleasant location<br \/>\nwhether a couch, lounge chair, bed or bunk<br \/>\nmake sure you take advantage of the situation<br \/>\nthen dream drunkard dream and get lost in it\u00a0<br \/>\nascend descend befriend as you lose mind control<br \/>\nall night long for an hour or minute by minute<br \/>\nyour brain pan may release your tortured soul<br \/>\nyou may sail tranquil seas climb mountains high<br \/>\nfind friends at the bottom of the Mariana Trench<br \/>\nfloat beyond the farthest stars visible in the sky<br \/>\nhit a World Series homerun or sit on the bench<br \/>\nmake love to and marry a two headed manatee<br \/>\ndiscover magnetic Martians eating iron ore earth<br \/>\nfind yourself sloshing around in a whiskey sea<br \/>\nrolling over in a grave laughing at a hyena\u2019s mirth<br \/>\nno delirium tremens for you tonight is a circus<br \/>\nacrobats drop ice cream cones into your mouth<br \/>\nyou breeze by a carnival barker trying to jerk us<br \/>\ndream drunkard dream North East West South.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey &#8216;Pepe Batbon&#8217; Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired teacher and has been named a poet laureate of Tinian. He has taught English in CNMI public schools for the past 30 years. He has also taught in Alaska, New Orleans, and Las Vegas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo wonder stars are winking No wonder heaven mocks At men who cease from drinking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":321680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,304,5148],"class_list":["post-324057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-las-vegas","tag-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324057","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=324057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}