{"id":403615,"date":"2023-12-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=403615"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"A-CNMI-Winter-Solstice-Sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/A-CNMI-Winter-Solstice-Sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"A CNMI Winter Solstice Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Winter will arrive in the CNMI this Friday on Dec. 22, 2023, at 1:27pm. No snow forecast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sun is coming up the sun is going down<\/p>\n<p>listen to the sound of rain on banana trees<\/p>\n<p>bright flowers are blooming all over town<\/p>\n<p>enjoy that nice cooling trade wind breeze<\/p>\n<p>After the sun has risen you see that it rose<\/p>\n<p>on its shortest trip through our sky this year<\/p>\n<p>still long enough to burn your face and nose<\/p>\n<p>time for lemon in your tea a tear in your beer<\/p>\n<p>After it sets it is still not yet time for bed<\/p>\n<p>all those things you wanted to do in daylight<\/p>\n<p>all those things maybe better left unsaid<\/p>\n<p>but the tilting of the earth you cannot fight<\/p>\n<p>As Winter solstice through heaven knocks<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait for Spring and Vernal Equinox.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/95901e393b912cc08d0fd9df68f451bf.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>Managaha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter will arrive in the CNMI this Friday on Dec. 22, 2023, at 1:27pm. No&#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-403615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403615","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=403615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}