{"id":333,"date":"2020-10-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2020-10-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:00:00","slug":"when-nellie-dresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/when-nellie-dresses\/","title":{"rendered":"When Nellie Dresses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1912-10-28\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, October 28, 1912<\/a><\/em>.\n \n\n When Nellie goes upstairs to dress,\n \u00a0 I take a magazine,\n And read about the wonders of\n \u00a0 Some far-off foreign scene;\n An article of men who graft,\n \u00a0 The Wall Street system, too;\n Also the editor\u2019s remarks\n \u00a0 On what next month he\u2019ll do.\n \n I light my pipe and puff away\n \u00a0 The while the page I scan,\n And read a Robert Chambers tale\n \u00a0 About some love-sick man.\n A muck-rake expert leads me through\n \u00a0 A bale of torrid stuff\n Explaining how a lot of men\n \u00a0 Got rich upon a bluff.\n \n I read the advertisements next,\n \u00a0 Of collars, kodaks, cars,\n And breakfast foods and underwear,\n \u00a0 Tobacco and cigars.\n A liberal education I\n \u00a0 Obtain, I must confess,\n The evening we are going out\n \u00a0 And Nellie starts to dress.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> When Nellie goes upstairs to dress,<br \/>\n   I take a magazine,<br \/>\n And read about the wonders of<br \/>\n   Some far-off foreign scene;<\/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-333","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\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}