{"id":401518,"date":"2023-11-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=401518"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Giving-Thanks-for-Democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Giving-Thanks-for-Democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks for Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by William Shakespeare\u2019s sonnet CXVI, it has a famous rhyming couplet at the end that inspired me to write three or four other parodies:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf this be error and upon me prov\u2019d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I never writ, nor no man ever lov\u2019d.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><h4>Constitutional Sentiments and Impediments<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>Let us not divide the elemental tie that binds<\/p>\n<p>or deny it and cut the fabric of democracy<\/p>\n<p>which boggles and befuddles MAGA minds<\/p>\n<p>as they wallow in delusion and conspiracy<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes! Strength comes when we do our best<\/p>\n<p>our United States Constitution will not be shaken<\/p>\n<p>its worth is priceless, its truths are well taken<\/p>\n<p>our Founding Fathers compromised without rest<\/p>\n<p>Over time lies do not fool and truth will leak out<\/p>\n<p>common sense grows by minutes days and weeks<\/p>\n<p>through truth\u2019s hourglass grains of truth seeks<\/p>\n<p>inside the hour of truth justice comes no doubt<\/p>\n<p>If I am mistaken allow me to drink my own puke<\/p>\n<p>Let conspiracy theorists try to make their rebuke.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/5b5f034ce2252214ba0d0bbd7d49d1bf.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>Literary Nook<\/p>\n<p>Joey aka &#8220;Pepe Batbon&#8221; Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by William Shakespeare\u2019s sonnet CXVI, it has a famous rhyming couplet at the end&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401518","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}