{"id":328808,"date":"2020-08-28T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=328808"},"modified":"2020-08-28T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:00:47","slug":"a-covid-cabin-fever-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a-covid-cabin-fever-believer\/","title":{"rendered":"A COVID cabin fever believer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cIf I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t           <strong>   \u2014Abraham Lincoln <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m afraid of dying, I thought I wasn\u2019t for a while<br \/>\nfelt I could easily go on until my last dying breath<br \/>\njust grin and bear it with an all knowing smile<br \/>\nafter reading Ernest Becker\u2019s The Denial of Death.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 is now here, a worldwide pandemic crisis<br \/>\nan invisible viral enemy feared as never before<br \/>\nno banquets or buffets with Bacchus or Dionysus<br \/>\nnow a box of charity food comes to your locked door.<\/p>\n<p>German poet\/author Thomas Mann wrote in his play<br \/>\n\u201cMan is Man that\u2019s what counts goddamn!\u201d and<br \/>\n\u201cI can\u2019t move forward, and I can\u2019t move back.\u201d<br \/>\nCovid 19 seems to give social distancing little slack.<br \/>\nThen there are fools who won\u2019t wear a protective mask<br \/>\nthat might save a family member\u2019s life. Not a hard task.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey &#8216;Pepe Batbon&#8217; Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey aka Pepe Batbon is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread&#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":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-328808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328808","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=328808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328808\/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=328808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}