{"id":357194,"date":"2021-12-07T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=357194"},"modified":"2021-12-07T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:00:37","slug":"omicron-pandemic-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/omicron-pandemic-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron: Pandemic Poems\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Omicron Tis Of Thee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Omicron tis of thee<br \/>\ncausing us more misery<br \/>\nof thee we flee<br \/>\nfrom Alpha\u00a0to Omega<br \/>\nfrom Kappa Phi to Beta<br \/>\nfrom Micronesia to META<br \/>\nyou do your thing<br \/>\naround the world how many died<br \/>\nin quarantine fear we hide<br \/>\nfrom city to countryside<br \/>\nin self isolation we hide<br \/>\nof thee we flee<br \/>\nyou instigate vaccine doubt<br \/>\nwondering about your contagious route<br \/>\nmuch about you we don\u2019t know about<br \/>\nof thee we flee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OMG It\u2019s Omicron<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(A new COVID 19 variant, 15th letter in the Greek alphabet)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then there are those who point fingers<br \/>\nin ignorance, who started it, who to name<br \/>\nleaving many in doubt , suspicion lingers<br \/>\nas science deniers play the blame game<br \/>\nlet\u2019s help the government and medical folks<br \/>\ngive thanks for the life saving work they do<br \/>\nthe COVID wheel of variants gets more spokes<br \/>\nmasks, social distancing make it safer for me and you<br \/>\nheading toward Xmas and New Year\u2019s holidays<br \/>\nnew COVID-19 virus variants keep coming on<br \/>\nwe learn community spread protection ways<br \/>\nshould remain in place till Covid 19 is gone<br \/>\nthe Greek alphabet may be used from start to finish<br \/>\nthen English letters until the virus may diminish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omicron Tis Of Thee Omicron tis of thee causing us more misery of thee we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":355846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357194","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=357194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}