{"id":253,"date":"2020-11-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2020-11-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T06:00:00","slug":"the-alchemist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-alchemist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alchemist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1912-11-03\/ed-1\/seq-26\/\">Evening Star, November 3, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Marlin Ward.<\/em>\n \n\n My simple say-so makes the truth,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It also makes the lie;\n And all things bad transmute to good\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When they are done by I.\n \n Bill Flinn was just a common boss\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Until he followed me,\n But now he\u2019s clean and beautiful\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As any one can be.\n \n Perkins had predatory wealth\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Until I sanctified\n His tainted cash and made it pure\n \u00a0 \u00a0 By use upon my side.\n \n Thus, that all men and measures, too,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Are made, for bad or good,\n As they are for me or against,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is plainly understood.\n \n By all who get pure politics\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Direct from Flinn and me,\n The grand originators of\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Political purity.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> My simple say-so makes the truth,<br \/>\n     It also makes the lie;<br \/>\n And all things bad transmute to good<br \/>\n     When they are done by I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-marlin-ward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}