{"id":357713,"date":"2021-12-16T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=357713"},"modified":"2021-12-16T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:06:36","slug":"tis-the-season-for-sonnets-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tis-the-season-for-sonnets-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019Tis the season for sonnets on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q&amp;A Santa\u2019s On His Way<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Santa are you the real deal after Christmas meals<br \/>\nis all that fat from eating all those sugar cookies<br \/>\ndo your elves put toys in stockings and on shelves<br \/>\nwhen reindeers rest do you use trucks with18 wheels<br \/>\nis Santa Claus your real name or is it San Nicolas<br \/>\ndo you still bring the Little Drummer Boy drums<br \/>\nwhen your belly shakes like jelly should it tickle us<br \/>\nwill you be visiting us until Kingdom comes<br \/>\nunderneath that red suit are you always sweating<br \/>\ndo you represent virtuous giving without getting<br \/>\nand acts of kindness, love, and care for others<br \/>\nare you really parents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers<br \/>\nSanta Claus are you really just an idea in my head<br \/>\nwell I got a white beard, please bring me a suit of red.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Santa Answers With 12 Prancers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My friends, yes, I\u2019m a gift giver and the real deal<br \/>\nfor centuries involved in various gift giving plots<br \/>\nwith reindeer, horses, long haul trucks and cars<br \/>\nwith Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Toys For Tots<br \/>\nother charities and many volunteer super stars<br \/>\nso many children can greet Christmas with a smile<br \/>\nand experience a morning with true childhood joy<br \/>\nthere are so many wishes I can\u2019t keep them all on file<br \/>\nhelpers try to have something for every girl and boy<br \/>\nin the old days families got fruit cake and candy canes<br \/>\nand hung up socks for Santa to come and fill with stuff<br \/>\nnow we even drop presents to islanders from planes<br \/>\nsome folks can\u2019t get off the island when water is rough<br \/>\nhope that answers some of your questions, Santa explains.<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\n<em>Joey aka Pepe Batbon Connolly 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>Q&amp;A Santa\u2019s On His Way Santa are you the real deal after Christmas meals is&#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":[26,23672,23673],"class_list":["post-357713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357713","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=357713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357713\/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=357713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}