{"id":6987,"date":"2020-10-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2020-10-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:00:00","slug":"the-suffragette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-suffragette\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suffragette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-10-05\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, October 5, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n And this woman, soft of voice,\n \u00a0 Of whom the poets sung,\n Who in the ages long ago\n \u00a0 Was forced to hold her tongue.\n Good sooth but she is making up\n \u00a0 And paying back the debt\n Piled up through all those silent years!\n \u00a0 Behold the suffragette!\n \n Our mother sat around and smiled\n \u00a0 When men in meeting rose,\n And when they grandly aired their views\n \u00a0 Her tongue was in repose.\n But now the words so long suppressed\n \u00a0 No longer clog her throat.\n She fires them out with emphasis\n \u00a0 And says she wants a vote.\n \n No longer will she sit at ease\n \u00a0 And let him have his way\n About affairs of church and state,\n \u00a0 For she will have her say.\n For when there is a talking fest\n \u00a0 You find her in the swim,\n And oftentimes, to his dismay,\n \u00a0 She knows as much as him.\n \n Yes, woman, you have grown a bit\n \u00a0 And learned a lot of things.\n You fly as high as any one\n \u00a0 Since you have spread your wings.\n Is it for better or for worse?\n \u00a0 We can\u2019t exactly say:\n But, though man is a little dazed,\n \u00a0 He likes you anyway.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> And this woman, soft of voice,<br \/>\n   Of whom the poets sung,<br \/>\n Who in the ages long ago<br \/>\n   Was forced to hold her tongue.<\/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":[96],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-duncan-m-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987","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=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}