{"id":378731,"date":"2022-11-01T06:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=378731"},"modified":"2022-11-01T06:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:04:17","slug":"senescent-sonnets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senescent-sonnets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senescent Sonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThe most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Election Rip and Rap\u2014Lips Do Flap<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWill you clap or cry after the next election<br \/>\nof candidate\u2019s platforms what\u2019s your objection<br \/>\ndo some of them suffer from a lying infection<br \/>\ndoes their lack of honesty cause your dejection<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\ndid you give their platforms a close inspection<br \/>\ndoes their program need a course correction<br \/>\nis your vote heading in a new direction<br \/>\nare you hoping for some incumbents\u2019 ejection<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\ndo you want an older office holders resurrection<br \/>\ndo you drop dollars into a campaign collection<br \/>\ninveigh against your favorites rivals with invection<br \/>\nin defense of lies do they have good protection<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nafter plenty of conscientious thought and reflection<br \/>\nare you confident about your voting selection.<\/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><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill,&#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-378731","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\/378731","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=378731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378731\/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=378731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}