{"id":665,"date":"2021-03-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2021-03-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T06:00:00","slug":"a-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-possibility\/","title":{"rendered":"A Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-03-02\/ed-1\/seq-22\/\"><em>Evening Star, March 2, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n When tariff makers of renown\n Shall cut each unjust duty down;\n When landlords ask but little rent;\n When banks and trusts shall be content\n With modest profits now and then\n On trade they do with common men;\n When railroads cease to charge a rate\n Almost the value of the freight;\n When coal men, lumbermen and such\n Shall cease to waste and spoil so much;\n When middlemen shall be no more;\n And he who runs the retail store\n Shall find a profitable way\n To scale the prices we must pay;\n When, in each legislative hall,\n Our \u201cstatesmen\u201d serve us, one and all,\n Instead of working for the folk\n Who hold the land beneath their yoke;\n When you and I, with thrifty care,\n Shall stop the leakage here and there,\n Desist from thoughtlessness and haste\n Which mean extravagance and waste;\n When all these goodly things are so,\n The cost of living may get low\u2014\n But, I dunno!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> When tariff makers of renown<br \/>\n Shall cut each unjust duty down;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}