{"id":219,"date":"2020-11-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2020-11-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T06:00:00","slug":"hitchin-em-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/hitchin-em-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchin\u2019 \u2018Em Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1912-11-29\/ed-1\/seq-11\/\">The Topeka State Journal, November 29, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Roy K. Moulton.<\/em>\n \n\n The marriage microbe is a bird that\u2019s hard to understand.\n The short man always asks the tall skyscraper for her hand.\n The man who\u2019s six feet in his socks will wed for good and all\n Some maiden who is passing fair, but only four feet tall.\n The brilliant girl who takes the prize and outshines all the school\n Is more than apt to cast her fate in marriage with some fool.\n The learned man who knows his books and has a sober mind\n Most like weds the dizziest young damsel he can find.\n The prettiest of all the girls will wed some cross-eyed gink\n Who doesn\u2019t look as though he knew enough to even think.\n The homely girl most likely hooks the handsome millionaire.\n The frivolous maid weds a man who\u2019s loaded down with care.\n The pious girls is apt to draw some old night prowlin\u2019 skate\n Who doesn\u2019t think that 3 o\u2019clock is anywhere near late.\n The pastor of the church may draw a social butterfly\n Who thinks more of her new fall hat than mansions up on high.\n The more you try to solve the thing, the less you really know.\n Philosophers all gave it up some centuries ago.\n The mystery is fathomless, as much now of yore.\n It\u2019s only human nature, pure and simple, nothing more.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The marriage microbe is a bird that\u2019s hard to understand.<br \/>\n The short man always asks the tall skyscraper for her hand.<\/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":[267],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}