{"id":443,"date":"2021-01-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2021-01-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T06:00:00","slug":"the-shoe-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-shoe-clerk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shoe Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-01-24\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, January 24, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n Each time I go to buy my shoes,\n I say, \u201cNow THIS time I will choose\n A last to fit my dainty foot\n And simply seek Myself to suit.\n I will not let the subtle clerk\n With siren voice and oily smirk\n Persuade me that I ought to fall\n For shoes too pointed and too small.\u201d\n \n But when I enter in the store\n It goes exactly as of yore;\n The clerk convinces me that I\n Have no idea what to buy,\n And by some magic makes me see\n That what he wants to sell to me\u2014\n A pair of shoes too short and tight\u2014\n Is really just exactly right.\n He makes me think a narrow toe\n Is really very broad, and so\n I buy HIS choice\u2014and not the pair\n Which common sense would bid me wear.\n \n Result\u2014my corns their aches renew,\n I have a painful week or two;\n But when that pair wears out\u2014ah, then,\n I\u2019ll do the same fool thing again!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Each time I go to buy my shoes,<br \/>\n I say, \u201cNow THIS time I will choose<br \/>\n A last to fit my dainty foot<br \/>\n And simply seek Myself to suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}