{"id":377337,"date":"2022-10-10T06:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=377337"},"modified":"2022-10-10T06:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:04:28","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-cnmi-and-stewardship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a-prayer-for-the-cnmi-and-stewardship\/","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the CNMI and stewardship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is dedicated to the stewards of the CNMI who are tired of praying for our politicians on Sunday but still catch hell from them on Monday, especially our retirees, NMDs, and government employees!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our prayers for our Commonwealth should never be overdue<br \/>\nAs a prayer for some voters is often needed on what to do.<br \/>\nWhen corruption, lies and evil has consumed most of the elected\tThe stewards are really to blame for not being good detectives!<\/p>\n<p>Impeachment followed by state and federal RICO charges<br \/>\nHas not deterred some who continue with their voting marches.<br \/>\nAnd being blind-eyed to crime when its looking one in the face\tHas only serve to contribute to make worse our destitute fate!<\/p>\n<p>Criminal trials looming with chaos and corruption here, there and everywhere,<br \/>\nGiving rise to our true reality that some stewards don\u2019t even care.\tHaving so many bad stewards of our government gone awry<br \/>\nOne must give serious pause to wonder if prosperity will ever fly!<\/p>\n<p>As the election draws near with choices between old and new being clear<br \/>\nWill the stewards send a message, we want a completely new political year.<br \/>\nWhile hope has become a forgotten commodity\t\t\tThe stewards of the CNMI must turn hope into our new reality!<br \/>\nWho will vote for change and improvements is still the question that remains<br \/>\nSo why elect the same who brought about all this shame.<br \/>\nStewardship is a very serious and a real responsibility<br \/>\nAs, the election is really all about the stewardships\u2019 accountability!<\/p>\n<p>So, who is really to blame for the horrific government at hand\tThe same stewards who will be voting again.<br \/>\nBut now more than ever, stewards must do the right thing<br \/>\nOr, we are doomed to hear the same disappointing bell ring!<\/p>\n<p>This prayer is not alone for a better CNMI<br \/>\nAs many are praying all the stewards will heed this humble cry.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not about family-ties, parties, photo ops and speeches to-date<br \/>\nBecause the real results of voting will seal our true fate!\t<\/p>\n<p>This is certainly no time to vote for family for fear of stepping on toes<br \/>\nWe need our stewards to improve voting for the best-one like real pros.<br \/>\nSo help the CNMI by sharing this prayer with stewards on what we need to do<br \/>\nWe must reclaim and improve our-government as it\u2019s stewards\u2013for true!\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ambrose M. Bennett<\/strong><br \/>\nKagman, Saipan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is dedicated to the stewards of the CNMI who are tired of praying for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":331240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,917],"class_list":["post-377337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-nmds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377337","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=377337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}