{"id":6853,"date":"2021-03-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2021-03-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T05:00:00","slug":"the-gladdest-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-gladdest-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gladdest Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-03-27\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, March 27, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n I like it in the morning when\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The sun shines in across my bed\n And seems to kind of whisper then\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cGet up, you little sleepy head,\u201d\n And just outside my window, where\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A limb sticks upward from a tree\n The sparrows often sit and stare\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And nod their heads and chirp at me.\n \n I like it in the evening when\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The sounds all seem so far away,\n And all the men go home again\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who had to work so hard all day,\n For then my muvver always sings\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And dresses in her nicest gown,\n And soon we\u2019ll hear the train that brings\n \u00a0 \u00a0 My papa back to us from town.\n \n I like it best on Sunday, when\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We don\u2019t get up till very late,\n Because the maid\u2019s so weary then\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And has to sleep till nearly eight,\n And after we\u2019ve had breakfast, why,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 My papa doesn\u2019t start away,\n But stays at home, and he and I\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Keep all the house upset all day.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I like it in the morning when<br \/>\n     The sun shines in across my bed<br \/>\n And seems to kind of whisper then<br \/>\n     \u201cGet up, you little sleepy head,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-6853","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\/6853","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=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}