{"id":347535,"date":"2021-07-08T06:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=347535"},"modified":"2021-07-08T06:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T20:03:11","slug":"virtue-and-vice-variations-extremist-versus-moderation-food-situations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/virtue-and-vice-variations-extremist-versus-moderation-food-situations\/","title":{"rendered":"VIRTUE AND VICE VARIATIONS  Extremist versus Moderation Food Situations \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAvoid extreams*; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014B. Franklin<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Between Excess and Elimination<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRemember the children\u2019s rhyme about Jack Sprat<br \/>\na moderation lesson on excess and elimination<br \/>\none of them was very skinny the other real fat<br \/>\nbetween the couple they practiced moderation<br \/>\nsometimes we all eat too much of foods we like<br \/>\nand often enough we get thick round the middle<br \/>\nnever knowing when the heart attack will strike<br \/>\nself control helps to solve that age old riddle<br \/>\ngrass gives you munchies? drink too much booze?<br \/>\nhave one joint, two beers or two glasses of wine<br \/>\ndon\u2019t \u2018bogart\u2019 that joint friend, you\u2019ll never lose<br \/>\nstop beer belly bloat and you\u2019ll be doing just fine<br \/>\nthat is a brief scan of this sonnets simple schism<br \/>\nsomewhere between moderation and extremism.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Benjamin Franklin\u2019s spelling of \u201cextreme.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Moderation Menu\/Fast Food Venue<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>\u201cExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no\u00a0virtue.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Sen. Barry Goldwater (1909 -1988).<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFood adoration, amplification of truth<br \/>\nself-starvation and over-simplification<br \/>\nlying about drugs, liquor libation in youth<br \/>\nself-flagellation, excessive masturbation<br \/>\nlocal menu, gobbling fat fried temptation<br \/>\nguilt associations, addictive situations<br \/>\nsolving deep fried food evasion equations\u00a0<br \/>\ngorging anticipation, increased salivation<br \/>\nyoyo dieting brings weight fluctuation<br \/>\nsome try losing weight by food deprivation<br \/>\nsome suck fat out by liposuction operation<br \/>\nand miss benefits of dance exercise gyration<br \/>\nyou pick: long life practice of moderation or<br \/>\nextremist paths to fat frustration and negation.<\/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>\u201cAvoid extreams*; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.\u201d \u2014B. Franklin \u00a0&#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":[26,304,5148],"class_list":["post-347535","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\/347535","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=347535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347535\/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=347535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}