{"id":493,"date":"2020-09-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2020-09-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T05:00:00","slug":"convinced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/convinced\/","title":{"rendered":"Convinced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1912-09-27\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, September 27, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n We had another speaker down to Pohick on the Crick.\n We all put on our Sunday clothes an\u2019 had \u2018em neat an\u2019 slick.\n We waited for his eloquence to thrill us through an\u2019 through\n Deliverin\u2019 instructions on what nations ought to do.\n But he never stood before us on that platform strong and high!\n Before he struck the steps the Miggins baby caught his eye.\n He grabbed it from its mother an\u2019 he held it up to view\n An\u2019 shook his finger at it while he hollered \u201cCoochy-coo!\u201d\n \n You should have heard the cheerin\u2019! We set up a mighty shout!\n You should have seen the way fond parents trotted babies out.\n An\u2019 he never turned an eyelash. To the finish he was game.\n He took the little fellers an\u2019 he treated all the same.\n We\u2019ll vote for him for certain. Every mother in the town\n Will see that every father gets the proper ballot down;\n Though I must confess in private, I don\u2019t understand\u2014do you?\u2014\n Why we\u2019d send a man to office jes\u2019 for sayin\u2019 \u201cCoochy-coo!\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We had another speaker down to Pohick on the Crick.<br \/>\n We all put on our Sunday clothes an\u2019 had \u2018em neat an\u2019 slick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248,275],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson","tag-shooting-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}