{"id":388542,"date":"2023-04-03T06:06:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=388542"},"modified":"2023-04-03T06:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T20:06:45","slug":"april-is-national-poetry-month-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/april-is-national-poetry-month-6\/","title":{"rendered":"April is National Poetry Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April Fools and their Foolish Rush<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFools rush in where angels fear to tread.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014written by Alexander Pope in 1771 at 22 years old<\/p>\n<p>April fools rush in not knowing where to begin<br \/>\nhelter-skelter across their failing memory banks<br \/>\nmaking noise and talking trash about silly sins<br \/>\nplaying with your mind pulling lots of pranks<\/p>\n<p>April fools are always out there just look around<br \/>\ngiving you a hard time about things you believe<br \/>\nthey make you wonder if your reasoning is sound<br \/>\nand you just can\u2019t wait until these fools will leave<\/p>\n<p>April fools keep up foolishness all summer long<br \/>\nleaving beer cans and trash at all the beach parks<br \/>\nalways singing the same old \u2018I\u2019ll get it later\u2019 song<br \/>\nalways leave a mess when going home after dark<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll know when you see them on local bar stools<br \/>\nalways ready with plenty of BS those April Fools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foolish Fables on Mortals Cables<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLord , what fools these mortals be!\u201d is used in\u00a0William Shakespeare\u2019s play, A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream. Originally from Lucius Annaeus Seneca the\u00a0Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, who was born 5 BC and died 65 AD.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t remember how long I stayed up on the Big<br \/>\nRock Candy Mountain, or where it was or when I<br \/>\nwent up or when I came back down. My canoe was<br \/>\naluminum, the Lake of Stew was hot, and Whisky<br \/>\nLake was a short portage away. I made frequent trips.<\/p>\n<p>My fellow teacher, Little Miss Muffet, got mad at me<br \/>\nwhen I called her a honey muffin. When a spider sat<br \/>\ndown beside her as she drank more hard cider she said<br \/>\nthe pumpkin cupcakes always made her much wider.<\/p>\n<p>When the cow jumped over the moon it dropped some<br \/>\ncow plops a little too soon. All the \u2018woke\u2019 astronomers.<br \/>\nsent out an All-Points Bulletin, letting folks know there<br \/>\nwould be BS bull shooting meteor shower storms on<br \/>\nthe way. They advised staying inside or if you go out<br \/>\nwear a hat night and day to avoid the drops of spray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Fools and their Foolish Rush \u201cFools rush in where angels fear to tread.\u201d \u2014written&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":387597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[156,5122,16617],"class_list":["post-388542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-ad","tag-bc","tag-national-poetry-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388542","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=388542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}