{"id":557,"date":"2021-02-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2021-02-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:00:00","slug":"parcel-postludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/parcel-postludes\/","title":{"rendered":"Parcel Postludes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85066387\/1913-02-04\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The San Francisco Call, February 4, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n O\u2019er many a weary, aching mile\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The parcel postman ambled\n And when he reached our domicile\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The eggs he brought were scrambled.\n \n The hat he left for Mabel, too,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Caused her poor heart to flutter;\n \u2019Twas saturated through and through\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With some one\u2019s melted butter.\n \n And Brother Bill is tearing hot\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s funny\n The socks and ties and shirts he got\n \u00a0 \u00a0 By mail were smeared with honey.\n \n But father\u2019s smile is soft and bland;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We all know by that token\n His snake bite cure, though contraband,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Came through the mail unbroken.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> O\u2019er many a weary, aching mile<br \/>\n     The parcel postman ambled<br \/>\n And when he reached our domicile<br \/>\n     The eggs he brought were scrambled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-san-francisco-call"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}