{"id":339936,"date":"2021-03-10T06:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=339936"},"modified":"2021-03-10T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:06:44","slug":"covid-air-and-the-angels-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/covid-air-and-the-angels-share\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Air and the Angel\u2019s Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Metamorphoses of COVID<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>\u201c\u2026the air was without splendor:<br \/>\nno thing maintained its shape; all were at war;<br \/>\nin one same body cold and hot would battle;<br \/>\nthe damp contended with the dry, things hard<br \/>\nwith soft, and weighty things with weightless<br \/>\nparts.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n\u2014from <em>The Metamorphoses<\/em> of Ovid, a Roman poet (43 B.C.- A.D. 17).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI have now had my second COVID vaccine shot<br \/>\nyet fear continues with almost every news release<br \/>\nit lingers in my head whether I like it or not<br \/>\nstill wearing a mask and distancing give no peace.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCoronavirus mutations enter in our blood<br \/>\ninvisible enemies cross through airport gates<br \/>\nfrom So. Africa, Brazil, U.K. come in a flood<br \/>\nsome more deadly than others such is our fate.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nScientists work constantly to stop these variants<br \/>\ntime needed testing for strength and efficacy<br \/>\ndata examined by CDC for usage and clearance<br \/>\nfor length of immunity we must wait and see.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCOVID now metamorphs across the land and sea<br \/>\nkilling some and causing anxiety for you and me.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>About the Angel\u2019s Share, Devils May Care<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n20% of a barrel of whiskey is lost to evaporation of spirits<br \/>\ndistillers call this loss of precious liquid \u2018the angel\u2019s share\u2019<br \/>\nhope holds out that the distillation process has its merits\u00a0<br \/>\ndevils and other spirits hearing about this said just not fair.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThose devils be damned they want a share of at least 15%<br \/>\nhow the hell they will get it I don\u2019t really know or care<br \/>\nperhaps it will come down a pipeline of pity heaven sent\u00a0<br \/>\nguarantee they will wolf it down in a purgatory pub chair.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNext the leprechauns spoke up that crafty old bunch<br \/>\nthose Irish spirits wanted a share of spirits around 10%<br \/>\nto have on a daily basis when they sat down to lunch<br \/>\nor celebrate charms and tricks meant with good intent.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDuendes from the islands of Rota, Tinian, and Saipan<br \/>\nwant 5% to mix together with tuba wine is their plan.<\/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>The Metamorphoses of COVID \u00a0 \u201c\u2026the air was without splendor: no thing maintained its shape;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":322001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-339936","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\/339936","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=339936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}