{"id":16,"date":"2020-12-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2020-12-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:00:00","slug":"her-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/her-coat\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Coat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1912-12-18\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, December 18, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n When winter to the leafless world\n &nbsp; &nbsp; His coming still delays,\n She watches the thermometer\n &nbsp; &nbsp; With eager wistful gaze;\n And half a dozen times an hour\n &nbsp; &nbsp; She wishes she could go\n Where zero juggles with the bulb,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And all is frozen snow.\n \n\n She reads the weather man\u2019s report,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And jumps for joy one day\n Because at last a frigid wave\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Is somewhere on the way.\n No, she is not an Eskimo\n &nbsp; &nbsp; From polar lands remote,\n She only wants it cold enough\n &nbsp; &nbsp; To wear her new fur coat.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> When winter to the leafless world<br \/>\n     His coming still delays,<br \/>\n She watches the thermometer<br \/>\n     With eager wistful gaze;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}