{"id":575,"date":"2021-02-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2021-02-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T06:00:00","slug":"an-opinion-from-punkin-hollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/an-opinion-from-punkin-hollow\/","title":{"rendered":"An Opinion From Punkin Hollow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-02-13\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, February 13, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n There\u2019s always something goin\u2019 on to make the cowards quake with dread\n And set around and talk about the dangers that are on ahead;\n I\u2019ll bet you that when Caesar fell the folks who kept the stores in Rome\n Expected that the mobs would rise to drive them out of house and home;\n But things kept goin\u2019 right along, the old world never swerved a jot\n And in a little while the crowds went back to workin\u2019 and forgot.\n \n When Cromwell got his dander up and went to knockin\u2019 things about\n I\u2019ll bet that lots of folks supposed the world was goin\u2019 up the spout;\n The radicals, I s\u2019pose, were blamed for recklessly destroyin\u2019 trade\n And probably wild howls went up for all the changes that were made.\n But England didn\u2019t go to smash. In fact the rip-up helped a lot,\n And in a little while the crowds went back to workin\u2019 and forgot.\n \n It\u2019s always been the same old cry. We hear it every now and then;\n Some man that ain\u2019t afraid steps out and does things for his fellow men.\n And they throw up their hands and say, because his way is strange or new,\n That he has knocked the bottom out and things will soon be fallin\u2019 through.\n But gener\u2019ly it happens that what needs upsettin\u2019 gets upsot,\n And when the crowds get back to work the whole affair is soon forgot.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> There\u2019s always something goin\u2019 on to make the cowards quake with dread<br \/>\n And set around and talk about the dangers that are on ahead;<\/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-575","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\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}