{"id":343221,"date":"2021-04-30T06:04:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=343221"},"modified":"2021-04-30T06:04:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:04:37","slug":"virtue-and-vice-naughty-and-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/virtue-and-vice-naughty-and-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtue and Vice\/Naughty and Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cEat not to dullness, drink not to elevation\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1793.<\/p>\n<p>Temperance Tattle<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBeer, wine, and whiskey does not exist to please itself<br \/>\nin glasses, bottles and cans as it sits there on a shelf<br \/>\nsometime when you feel like riding high on a horse<br \/>\nseek a slower gait and ride easy in sobriety\u2019s saddle<br \/>\nyou might indulge in a short little vino veritas course<br \/>\ndon\u2019t let inebriation or getting drunk win the battle<br \/>\nthat might also be said for gluttony and fried fat food<br \/>\ngobbling sweets and guzzling booze in a manner rude<br \/>\nmoderate your consumption in eating and drinking<br \/>\neat hearty and enjoy any alcohol you may consume<br \/>\nstop before slurred speech and muddled thinking<br \/>\nexcess fat and booze may lead to an early tomb<br \/>\ntake it easy on too much as you go through life<br \/>\nso you don\u2019t wind up like Jack Sprat and his wife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intemperance Intellection<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAll around them hangs an amazing alcoholic aura<br \/>\na cold conflagration of conspicuous consumption<br \/>\nof jiggers, shots, pints, fifths, quarts, a plethora<br \/>\nfulfilling a fun filled but possibly fatal function<br \/>\ncool cats, dirty dawgs, other drunken carnivora<br \/>\nfollow each other on trips to a juiced up junction<br \/>\nriding high on a hog and three sheets to the winds<br \/>\ngoing ninety miles an hour down a thunder road<br \/>\nwhite lightening and Two Buck Chuck best friends<br \/>\nhangovers wake up calls heads about to explode<br \/>\njust can\u2019t seem to leave a few drops in the bottle<br \/>\nbefuddled boozy brains mix fantasy with fiction<br \/>\nroaring down Night Train mountain on full throttle<br \/>\ndeep defiant denial facing acute alcohol addiction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey \u2018Pepe Batbon\u2019 Connolly<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Special to the Saipan Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n<p><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>\u201cEat not to dullness, drink not to elevation\u201d \u2014from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1793&#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":[14066,26,304,38],"class_list":["post-343221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-cnmi","tag-las-vegas","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343221","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=343221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343221\/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=343221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}