{"id":6844,"date":"2020-09-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2020-09-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:00:00","slug":"the-farewell-swat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-farewell-swat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Farewell Swat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-09-10\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, September 10, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n \u2018Tis the last fly of summer that flits on the wing;\n And my heart almost bleeds for the lonesome young thing!\n No mate of his old age, no comrade has he\n To stick in the jelly, or drown in the tea!\n \n\n I know if I spare him he\u2019ll frisk on my nose;\n Or perch on my bald spot, disturb my repose!\n Bereft of his vigor and shorn of his pride,\n I\u2019ll send him to rest, where the good flies reside!\n \n\n So (swat!) let me finish his earthly career\u2014\n Then (bing!) goes a globe from my best chandelier;\n And (smash!) my screen swatter is dashed at his head\u2014\n But, gosh! \u2018Twas a finger bowl shattered instead.\n \n\n Well, (biff!) ain\u2019t it awful, I\u2019ve missed him once more?\n And (bang!) this destruction is making me sore.\n So kindly let\u2019s gather the wreckage away,\n And hope that we land him on some other day!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u2018Tis the last fly of summer that flits on the wing;<br \/>\n And my heart almost bleeds for the lonesome young thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","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=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}