{"id":378003,"date":"2022-10-20T06:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T20:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=378003"},"modified":"2022-10-20T06:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T20:04:05","slug":"tinian-typhoon-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tinian-typhoon-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinian Typhoon Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here is a new sonnet from Tinian poet laureate Joey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly that is written for the\u00a0Gineptin Ha\u2019anen, Taga Festival on Oct. 21-22, 2022.<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTonight on the 15th\u00a0degree north latitude<br \/>\nI\u2019m having a Tinian typhoon nightmare<br \/>\nmost of my dreams have a positive attitude<br \/>\ntry to stay safe take caution and take care<br \/>\nnow Chalan Kaskao muddy coral roads<br \/>\nSan Jose village church bell is gone<br \/>\nskies darken, heavy rain, wind explodes<br \/>\ntyphoon eye directly overhead at dawn<br \/>\nputi tainobiu flower stands out all alone<br \/>\ntrunkon gagu pines bend with the wind<br \/>\na skinny dog gnaws on a cow\u2019s leg bone<br \/>\nwhen will this typhoon nightmare end<br \/>\ninside the reef big waves crash and surge<br \/>\nthe typhoon moves with destructive purge.<\/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>Here is a new sonnet from Tinian poet laureate Joey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly that 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":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-378003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378003","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=378003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378003\/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=378003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}