{"id":433,"date":"2021-01-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2021-01-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T06:00:00","slug":"prolonged-agitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/prolonged-agitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolonged Agitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-01-19\/ed-1\/seq-20\/\"><em>Evening Star, January 19, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n We\u2019re livin\u2019 calm and peaceful down to Pohick on the Crick.\n We remember last November when the talk was flyin\u2019 thick,\n But we\u2019ve settled down to duty and a proper share of rest,\n With every one a-hopin\u2019 an\u2019 a-doin\u2019 of his best.\n There ain\u2019t no apprehension \u2018bout what\u2019s goin\u2019 to be done\n In conferrin\u2019 new distinctions over there in Washington.\n We wrote our ballots plainly, as becomes men brave an\u2019 free;\n Since the vote has gone on record, we jes\u2019 say, \u201cLet bygones be.\u201d\n \n There\u2019s a heap of agitation\u2014we kin hear it from afar,\n Even though our own existence moves along without a jar.\n There are big committee meetin\u2019s. Speeches fill the air again.\n They are sometimes most as thrillin\u2019 as they were in the campaign.\n There are new ideas started with determination bold,\n An\u2019 there\u2019s eager agitation in defendin\u2019 of the old.\n But we have our own ideas an\u2019, I guess, to them we\u2019ll stick,\n Heaven be thanked! Election\u2019s over here at Pohick on the Crick!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We\u2019re livin\u2019 calm and peaceful down to Pohick on the Crick.<br \/>\n We remember last November when the talk was flyin\u2019 thick,<\/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":[248],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}