{"id":491,"date":"2020-09-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2020-09-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T05:00:00","slug":"hospitality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/hospitality\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1912-09-26\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Seattle Star, September 26, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n Jenkins spent his money,\n \u00a0 Took me to a show,\n Took me out to dinner\n \u00a0 Where the big guns go,\n Bought me smokes in plenty,\n \u00a0 Blew his money free;\n Still I didn\u2019t like his\n \u00a0 Hospitality.\n \n Barney gave me greeting\n \u00a0 Free of \u201cfroth and foam,\u201d\n Smiled and beamed upon me,\n \u00a0 Took me to his home;\n Made me feel at ease there\n \u00a0 With his family;\n That\u2019s the true and honest\n \u00a0 Hospitality.\n \n \u2018Tisn\u2019t in the splendor,\n \u00a0 \u2018Tisn\u2019t in the style,\n But in thoughtful kindness\n \u00a0 And the welcome smile.\n Money cannot buy it,\n \u00a0 Not for any fee;\n It\u2019s a gift of nature\u2014\n \u00a0 Hospitality.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Jenkins spent his money,<br \/>\n   Took me to a show,<br \/>\n Took me out to dinner<br \/>\n   Where the big guns go,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}