{"id":6984,"date":"2020-09-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2020-09-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T05:00:00","slug":"a-wise-nonadvertiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-wise-nonadvertiser\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wise Nonadvertiser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-09-24\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, September 24, 1912<\/a>.\nBy W. J. Lampton.<\/em>\n \n\n There was a man in our town\n \u00a0 And he was wondrous wise;\n He opened many places, yet\n \u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t advertise.\n \n He thought it foolish to announce\n \u00a0 His business as some think\n They ought to do, and said he had\n \u00a0 No need of printer\u2019s ink.\n \n Promotion of publicity\n \u00a0 He said, was something which\n The more he had of, that much less\n \u00a0 His chance of getting rich.\n \n He said he\u2019d studied it and knew\n \u00a0 That advertising would\n Beyond the shadow of a doubt\n \u00a0 Do more harm than good.\n \n Indeed, this man in our town\n \u00a0 Was truly wondrous wise;\n He was a burglar, which is why\n \u00a0 He didn\u2019t advertise.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> There was a man in our town<br \/>\n   And he was wondrous wise;<br \/>\n He opened many places, yet<br \/>\n   He wouldn\u2019t advertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-6984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-w-j-lampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984","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=6984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}