{"id":495,"date":"2020-09-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2020-09-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T05:00:00","slug":"look-whos-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/look-whos-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Who&#8217;s Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1912-09-28\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Tacoma Times, September 28, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n Now we are back to the months with the \u201cr\u201d in \u2018em;\n \u00a0 Now are the bivalves again to the fore;\n Restaurant cooks on the menus are starrin\u2019 \u2018em;\n \u00a0 Oysters are back to their glory once more,\n Raw on the halfshell or stewed most deliciously,\n \u00a0 Skewered with bacon or temptingly fried,\n Ah, how we welcome them! How expeditiously\n \u00a0 Food such as this is invited inside!\n \n Doubtless there\u2019s plenty of germs to avoid in \u2018em,\n \u00a0 Microbes of everything under the sun,\n Cholera, ptomaine and double typhoid in \u2018em;\n \u00a0 Still, now the season again has begun,\n We will take chances on what we may meet in \u2018em,\n \u00a0 Spite of the warnings of doctor and sage.\n Oysters are bully, and folks who have eaten\u2019 \u2018em\n \u00a0 Frequently live to a noble old age<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Now we are back to the months with the \u201cr\u201d in \u2018em;<br \/>\n   Now are the bivalves again to the fore;<br \/>\n Restaurant cooks on the menus are starrin\u2019 \u2018em;<br \/>\n   Oysters are back to their glory once more,<\/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-495","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\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}