{"id":475,"date":"2020-09-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2020-09-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T05:00:00","slug":"a-bachelors-outburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-bachelors-outburst\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bachelor&#8217;s Outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/1912-09-18\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">New York Tribune, September 18, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n Dear Sir, I am a bachelor;\n \u00a0 My income is twelve hun\u2019.\n \u2018Tis small, no doubt, yet I contrive\n \u00a0 To have a deal of fun.\n You\u2019ll think me selfish, yet until\n \u00a0 I\u2019m richer, I must own,\n I\u2019d rather be a bachelor,\n \u00a0 And jog along alone.\n \n Far be it from me to deride\n \u00a0 Or scoff at wedded bliss;\n I\u2019ve thought the matter over well,\n \u00a0 And my opinion\u2019s this:\n Though bachelors are selfish things,\n \u00a0 \u2018Twould just as selfish be\n To take a wife, and bring her to\n \u00a0 A life of drudgery.\n \n Suppose I loved a girl (I do),\n \u00a0 D\u2019you think I\u2019d care to see\n Her toil, and soil her pretty hands\n \u00a0 The livelong day for me?\n If I grow rich, I\u2019ll crave the hand\n \u00a0 Of her whom I adore;\n If not, dear sir, I must remain\n \u00a0 A lonely bachelor.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Dear Sir, I am a bachelor;<br \/>\n   My income is twelve hun\u2019.<br \/>\n \u2018Tis small, no doubt, yet I contrive<br \/>\n   To have a deal of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tribune","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}