{"id":368022,"date":"2022-05-10T06:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T20:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=368022"},"modified":"2022-05-10T06:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T20:03:39","slug":"science-and-dreams-sense-and-sensibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/science-and-dreams-sense-and-sensibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Dreams: Sense and Sensibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cWe are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n<strong> \u2014William Shakespeare, The Tempest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Science Sensibility Sonnet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From our mother\u2019s womb<br \/>\nsisters, brothers, father\u2019s bloom<br \/>\nwe thrive \u2014then a tomb<\/p>\n<p>From our father\u2019s sperms<br \/>\nwe live long\u2014laugh love and learn<br \/>\nuntil food for worms<\/p>\n<p>From modern science<br \/>\nto forms of religious reliance<br \/>\nthought balances with compliance<\/p>\n<p>Forgetting common sense<br \/>\nsome prefer ignorance<br \/>\nand ride on logic\u2019s fence<\/p>\n<p>tall tales and lies they borrow<br \/>\ntruth today is gone tomorrow<br \/>\nscientific knowledge in sorrow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe Dreams be Remembered or Not<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It may have been in May but maybe it was not<br \/>\nmaybe that could be right and maybe wrong<br \/>\nmy memory grows cold then sometimes hot<br \/>\nI just can\u2019t seem to remember that old song<br \/>\nI don\u2019t remember any words from it at all<br \/>\nI sang it to you out in the high school hall<br \/>\nwhen I wanted to take you to the Junior Ball<br \/>\nyou turned and smiled and said give me a call<br \/>\nthe memory of my singing it is still inside there<br \/>\nthe tune and words seem locked in a cage<br \/>\nas I lose more memories and more white hair<br \/>\nentering deeper into a senile dementia stage<br \/>\nbright lights happen before darkness smothers<br \/>\nAll I Have To Do Is Dream, the Everly Brothers.<\/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>\u201cWe are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded&#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":[26,21,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-368022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-life","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368022","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=368022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368022\/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=368022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}