{"id":477,"date":"2020-09-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2020-09-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T05:00:00","slug":"the-observer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-observer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-09-19\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, September 19, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n I like to sit beside the road\n \u00a0 A-waitin\u2019 fur the mail.\n Each day the driver will unload\n \u00a0 His treasures, without fail.\n And, be the weather dry or wet,\n \u00a0 A-standin\u2019 in the row,\n Amanda Boggs is there to get\n \u00a0 A letter from her beau.\n \n I\u2019ve watched her now fur quite a while,\n \u00a0 An\u2019 lately I perceive\n She\u2019s lost her laughin\u2019, careless smile,\n \u00a0 And seems inclined to grieve.\n I can\u2019t help sharin\u2019 her regret,\n \u00a0 That seems each day to grow.\n I wish Amanda Boggs would get\n \u00a0 A letter from her beau.\n \n Her eyes were never made fur tears,\n \u00a0 However light their mist.\n These ought to be the happiest years\n \u00a0 In all her birthday list.\n Her feet should dance an\u2019 never set\n \u00a0 A solemn pace an\u2019 slow.\n I wish Amanda Boggs would get\n \u00a0 A letter from her beau.\n \n Why, there\u2019s Amanda, \u2018cross the way,\n \u00a0 With sunshine in her face!\n I haven\u2019t seen in many a day\n \u00a0 Such joyous, girlish grace.\n I share her happiness, and yet\n \u00a0 I\u2019d never let her know\n How glad I am to see her get\n \u00a0 A letter from her beau.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I like to sit beside the road<br \/>\n   A-waitin\u2019 fur the mail.<br \/>\n Each day the driver will unload<br \/>\n   His treasures, without fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}