{"id":467,"date":"2020-09-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2020-09-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:00:00","slug":"the-great-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-great-event\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-09-14\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, September 14, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n The county fair is now on tap\n \u00a0 And all the porkers proud\n Are showing off their very best\n \u00a0 Before the gaping crowd.\n The cattle in the narrow stalls,\n \u00a0 The horses on the track,\n Are showing, each and every one,\n \u00a0 How lofty they can stack.\n \n The barker at the circus tent\n \u00a0 Is tearing in the air\n Great jagged holes, that each and all\n \u00a0 May know that he is there.\n The peanut and the popcorn man\n \u00a0 Are chasing far and wide\n To see that every hungry child\n \u00a0 Is with lunch supplied.\n \n Up in the building on the hill,\n \u00a0 Where cabbage is displayed\n Beside the pumpkins and the corn\n \u00a0 And goose eggs, freshly laid,\n The folks who raised it stand around\n \u00a0 To hear its praises told,\n And each one swells and feels as gay\n \u00a0 As any two-year-old.\n \n The father and the mother come,\n \u00a0 And all the kids are there.\n The listen to the big brass band\n \u00a0 And at the players stare.\n They take in everything in sight\n \u00a0 That gives them thrills or mirth,\n And you can bet most anything\n \u00a0 They get their money\u2019s worth.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The county fair is now on tap<br \/>\n   And all the porkers proud<br \/>\n Are showing off their very best<br \/>\n   Before the gaping crowd.<\/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-467","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\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}