{"id":626,"date":"2021-02-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2021-02-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T06:00:00","slug":"a-long-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-long-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-02-27\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, February 27, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n \u201cIn twenty years from now,\u201d said Pete,\n \u201cJust look for me on Easy street.\u201d\n \n The time went by, with hopeful air\n We looked and found he wasn\u2019t there.\n \n But one whom we did question said,\n The while he wagged a hoary head,\n \n \u201cI once did know a fellow who\n Lived back this way, a mile or two,\n \n \u201cHe might have been the man you seek.\n He earned, I think, twelve plunks a week.\n \n \u201cAnd had so large a family,\n From debt he never did get free.\n \n \u201cAnd when at last he closed his eyes\n And went, I hope, to Paradise,\n \n \u201cHe whispered, ere his spirit passed,\n \u2018I\u2019ve come to Easy street at last!\u2019\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cIn twenty years from now,\u201d said Pete,<br \/>\n \u201cJust look for me on Easy street.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}