{"id":6850,"date":"2021-03-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2021-03-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:00:00","slug":"the-crusoing-of-spifkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-crusoing-of-spifkins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crusoing of Spifkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1913-03-24\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, March 24, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Arthur Chapman.<\/em>\n \n\n Young Spifkins had a fortune that had come down from his dad\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He had lived his life in luxury and style;\n The best the market offered was the thing young Spifkins had\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Existence was a matter of his pile.\n \n But Spifkins had a shipwreck on a far-off Southern shore,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And all his wood and grub he had to haul;\n He\u2019d thought he couldn\u2019t live without the comforts from his store,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But soon he had forgot about \u2018em all.\n \n He found he could be happy in his tattered pantaloons\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He never missed his collar and his tie;\n And restaurants and taxis he forgot, ere many moons\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And, forgetting such, he didn\u2019t want to die.\n \n And so, when some one landed on the isle where Spifkins dwelt,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He chased the rash intruders from his tent;\n \u201cI\u2019ll not go back,\u201d cried Spifkins, as he whaled them with his belt\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cI never knew before what living meant.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Young Spifkins had a fortune that had come down from his dad\u2014<br \/>\n     He had lived his life in luxury and style;<br \/>\n The best the market offered was the thing young Spifkins had\u2014<br \/>\n     Existence was a matter of his pile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-6850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-arthur-chapman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850","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=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}