{"id":6982,"date":"2020-10-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2020-10-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:00:00","slug":"mothers-pumpkin-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/mothers-pumpkin-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Pumpkin Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84024827\/1912-10-02\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Bisbee Daily Review, October 2, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Roy K. Moulton.<\/em>\n \n\n Some folks prefer the fancy grub they serve at swell cafes,\n And cookin\u2019 by a foreign chef is really quite a craze.\n The bill of fare, in fancy French, they like to take in hand\n To demonstrate that they can make the waiter understand.\n They order up a high toned meal that may be very fine,\n But when it comes to eatin\u2019 good, I want no French in mine.\n I like the good old-fashioned meal, not like the kind you buy.\n It ends up with a great big slice of mother\u2019s pumpkin pie.\n \n We always start in with the soup that is so lickin\u2019 good,\n That everyone is helped again\u2014that\u2019s always understood.\n And then we have a husky roast and fixin\u2019s family style,\n With sweet potatoes, hubbard squash, and father\u2019s bound to pile\n Enough on every feller\u2019s plate to last him for a week,\n And we all eat till we can hardly think or breathe or speak.\n But e\u2019en at that we have to save some space, for bye and bye\n The climax of the meal must come, in mother\u2019s pumpkin pie.\n \n They talk about the joys of wealth and how to live in style,\n But I am glad that I must live the old way for a while;\n There\u2019s no dyspepsia in the house when mother\u2019s on the job,\n No indigestion, dizzy spells or gout araisin\u2019 hob,\n The meals are always served just right in winter, spring and fall.\n I like the whole year\u2019s bill of fare, but one thing best of all\u2014\n When I am through with earthly things and take my place on high,\n It won\u2019t seem just like heaven without mother\u2019s pumpkin pie.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Some folks prefer the fancy grub they serve at swell cafes,<br \/>\n And cookin\u2019 by a foreign chef is really quite a craze.<br \/>\n The bill of fare, in fancy French, they like to take in hand<br \/>\n To demonstrate that they can make the waiter understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bisbee-daily-review","category-newspapers","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982","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=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}