{"id":392,"date":"2020-10-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2020-10-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:00:00","slug":"pride-of-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/pride-of-ancestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride of Ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-10-12\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, October 12, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n His ancestor a pirate was,\n \u00a0 And proudly he gave tongue\n Unto the fact that his forbear\n \u00a0 Had from a yardarm swung.\n For if you take it in the days\n \u00a0 When history was made\n A pirate was, you are aware,\n \u00a0 A very decent trade.\n \n He had his picture on the wall\n \u00a0 Where every one could look;\n His history was written up\n \u00a0 And printed in a book.\n And he was just a trifle proud\n \u00a0 And thought that he was great\n Because he had descended from\n \u00a0 That tough old ancient skate.\n \n He had a sort of pity for\n \u00a0 The person who came down\n From ancestors who never robbed\n \u00a0 A coast or burned a town.\n They might be all right in a way,\n \u00a0 But it was understood\n They couldn\u2019t be so much, because\n \u00a0 Their ancestors were good.\n \n He wouldn\u2019t hurt a worm himself;\n \u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t kill a fly.\n He was a modest man without\n \u00a0 A wicked, piercing eye.\n I often wondered, could we turn\n \u00a0 Back to the ancient crowd,\n If that old fiery ancestor\n \u00a0 Of him would have been proud.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> His ancestor a pirate was,<br \/>\n   And proudly he gave tongue<br \/>\n Unto the fact that his forbear<br \/>\n   Had from a yardarm swung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-duncan-m-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}