{"id":6846,"date":"2021-03-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2021-03-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:00:00","slug":"the-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-cost-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-03-18\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, March 18, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n \u201cMan wants but little here below\u201d\u2014once that perhaps was true;\n I have no right to think I know, no more, indeed have you;\n Man may have once been satisfied to skimp along somehow,\n But it is not to be denied that much is needed now.\n \n There was a time when eggs were not quite worth their weight in gold,\n When bacon did not cost a lot and steaks were cheaply sold.\n When beans and bread and milk and cheese had not, in fact, obtained\n A place among the luxuries from which the poor abstained.\n \n Man needs a fortune here below to live in comfort now;\n No wonder that the wrinkles show so plainly on his brow;\n He has to have a lot to drive starvation from his door,\n And month by month they still contrive to keep him needing more.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cMan wants but little here below\u201d\u2014once that perhaps was true;<br \/>\n I have no right to think I know, no more, indeed have you;<br \/>\n Man may have once been satisfied to skimp along somehow,<br \/>\n But it is not to be denied that much is needed now.<\/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-6846","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\/6846","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=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}