{"id":6876,"date":"2021-03-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2021-03-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T06:00:00","slug":"business-amenities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/business-amenities\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Amenities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1913-03-13\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, March 13, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Farmer to claim agent:\n A cow of mine stood on your track\n \u00a0 \u00a0 About a week ago,\n And now old Bessy\u2019s in the land\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where all good bovines go.\n Your engine poked her in the ribs\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And left her stiff and still;\n You bought old Bessy then and there,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 So kindly pay the bill.\n \n \u00a0 \u00a0 Claim agent to farmer:\n Old Bessy never should have stood\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Upon the railroad track;\n You cannot blame old Twenty-Four\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For hitting her a crack.\n We didn\u2019t drive old Bessy there,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s not our fault she died,\n So bury her and mark the grave:\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cA bovine suicide.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>     Farmer to claim agent:<br \/>\n A cow of mine stood on your track<br \/>\n     About a week ago,<br \/>\n And now old Bessy\u2019s in the land<br \/>\n     Where all good bovines go.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876","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=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}