{"id":473,"date":"2020-09-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2020-09-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T05:00:00","slug":"sure-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/sure-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sure Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1912-09-17\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Tacoma Times, September 17, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n My son, when you go to a vodyville show\n \u00a0 You\u2019ll notice that people will shriek\n At jokes they have heard since the long, long ago\n \u00a0 And heard twenty times every week;\n The moral is plain, if you\u2019ll read as you run;\n \u00a0 A novelty adds to our zest,\n But when it comes down to extracting the \u201cMon\u201d\n \u00a0 The old stuff gets over the best!\n \n It may be all right when you\u2019re courting a dame\n \u00a0 To talk about Ibsen and such,\n But take it from me\u2014if you\u2019d win at the game,\n \u00a0 You won\u2019t stick to Ibsen so much;\n You\u2019ll tell HER that SHE\u2019S of a beauteous mold,\n \u00a0 A stunner becomingly dressed;\n You\u2019ll tell all the lies that men always have told\n \u00a0 The old stuff gets over the best.\n \n In politics, business, society, art,\n \u00a0 However the world has progressed,\n It still remains true to the words I impart,\n \u00a0 \u201cThe old stuff gets over the best!\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> My son, when you go to a vodyville show<br \/>\n   You\u2019ll notice that people will shriek<br \/>\n At jokes they have heard since the long, long ago<br \/>\n   And heard twenty times every week;<\/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-473","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\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}