{"id":411847,"date":"2024-08-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=411847"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Problems-with-evil-reverse-live-with-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Problems-with-evil-reverse-live-with-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with \u2018evil\u2019 (reverse) \u2018live\u2019 with problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got to live life if you want it now and or later<\/p>\n<p>problems and evil coming at you day and night<\/p>\n<p>ocean depths mountain climbs volcanic crater<\/p>\n<p>fantasy schemes nightmares dreams sunlight<\/p>\n<p>trouble maintaining your equilibrium throughout<\/p>\n<p>push comes to shove digging the dirt some mirth<\/p>\n<p>evil towards none malice towards all in doubt<\/p>\n<p>kindness forgiveness regret for what it\u2019s worth<\/p>\n<p>problems and evil seem to be with us every day<\/p>\n<p>yet so is goodness mercy justice and freedom<\/p>\n<p>inherent in our daily life and some of us pray<\/p>\n<p>depends on the human we choose to become<\/p>\n<p>as between the immensities of birth and death<\/p>\n<p>we stumble and savor life with every breath.<\/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>Got to live life if you want it now and or later problems and evil&#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-411847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411847","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=411847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}