{"id":559,"date":"2021-02-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2021-02-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T06:00:00","slug":"when-pa-was-my-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/when-pa-was-my-age\/","title":{"rendered":"When Pa Was My Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-02-05\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, February 5, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n When pa was my age he was glad\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To do just as they told him\n He never made his parents sad\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They never had to scold him.\n He never, never disobeyed\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Nor punched his little brother\n And day and night he always made\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Things pleasant for his mother.\n \n When pa was my age he would clean\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His shoes when they were muddy.\n He never thought his folks were mean\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Because they made him study.\n He always tried his best to be\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For goodness celebrated\n And he was praised by all\u2014but, gee!\n \u00a0 \u00a0 How pa\u2019s degenerated!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> When pa was my age he was glad<br \/>\n     To do just as they told him<br \/>\n He never made his parents sad<br \/>\n     They never had to scold him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-s-e-kiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","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=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}