{"id":257,"date":"2020-11-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2020-11-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T06:00:00","slug":"grandpa-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/grandpa-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-11-05\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, November 5, 1912<\/a><\/em>.\n \n\n My grandpa says that he was once\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A little boy like me.\n I s\u2019pose he was, and yet it does\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Seem queer to think that he\n Could ever get my jacket on\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or shoes, or like to play\n With games, and toys, and race with Duke,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As I do every day.\n \n He\u2019s come to visit us, you see,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Nurse says I must be good\n And mind my manners, as a child\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With such a grandpa should.\n For grandpa\u2019s very straight and tall,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And very dignified.\n He knows most all there is to know,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And other things beside.\n \n So, though my grandpa knows so much\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I thought that maybe boys\n Were things he hadn\u2019t studied\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They make such an awful noise.\n But when at dinner I asked for\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Another piece of pie,\n I thought I saw a twinkle\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In the corner of his eye.\n \n So yesterday, when they went out,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And left us two alone\n I was not quite so much surprised\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To find how nice he\u2019d grown.\n You should have seen us romp and run;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 My, now I almost see\n That perhaps he was long, long ago\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A little boy like me.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> My grandpa says that he was once<br \/>\n     A little boy like me.<br \/>\n I s\u2019pose he was, and yet it does<br \/>\n     Seem queer to think that he<br \/>\n Could ever get my jacket on<br \/>\n     Or shoes, or like to play<br \/>\n With games, and toys, and race with Duke,<br \/>\n     As I do every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}