{"id":408910,"date":"2024-05-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=408910"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"A-Sunday-Psalm-for-a-universal-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/A-Sunday-Psalm-for-a-universal-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunday Psalm for a universal mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Mother\u2019s Day a celebration day for every Mom<\/p>\n<p>When she gets time off from ceaseless daily chores<\/p>\n<p>Who doesn\u2019t think that their mother is the bomb<\/p>\n<p>For years spent cooking washing and mopping floors<\/p>\n<p>Fixing breakfast for six and more for tonight\u2019s dinner<\/p>\n<p>In the kitchen from dawn until some twilight calm<\/p>\n<p>Five children growing up none getting any thinner<\/p>\n<p>She handles her motherhood with relative aplomb<\/p>\n<p>Helps us with homework gets us ready for school<\/p>\n<p>We take out garbage she bakes cookies and cake<\/p>\n<p>Mother taught us children to obey the Golden Rule<\/p>\n<p>Daddy shot deer Mom fried liver and venison steak<\/p>\n<p>Mothers may have more than one sister and brother<\/p>\n<p>It takes family togetherness to love one another.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/51ec1f1100d5d7eea9228e5f43276c9f.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/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>On Mother\u2019s Day a celebration day for every Mom When she gets time off from&#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-408910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408910","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=408910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}