{"id":6988,"date":"2020-10-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2020-10-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T05:00:00","slug":"midnight-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/midnight-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-10-08\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, October 8, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n Oft in the stilly night\n When the cats begin to fight\n On the fence behind the lot\n Then I form a little plot\n As the window wide I throw\n And the yard I knee-deep sow\n With lots of bric-a-brac\n That was resting on the rack.\n \n Do the cats in wild alarm\n Run lest I should do them harm?\n Do they let the concert slide\n And proceed in haste to hide?\n No; they do not seem to know\n As I throw and throw and throw\n That a single thing is wrong\n With their piercing midnight song.\n \n Then I heave a pair of shoes\n That I wouldn\u2019t care to lose,\n And I throw a kitchen chair,\n Followed by my wife\u2019s false hair,\n Books and tables, sofa, rugs,\n Pots and kettles, pans and mugs,\n Writing pads, my rubber stamp,\n The piano and the lamp.\n \n Then the bedding and the bed\n From the tail piece to the head\n All are hurled into the gloom\n Till there\u2019s nothing in the room.\n But the cats are good as new\n On the job when I am through.\n Nor do they a moment pause.\n They regard it as applause.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Oft in the stilly night<br \/>\n When the cats begin to fight<br \/>\n On the fence behind the lot<br \/>\n Then I form a little plot<\/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-6988","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\/6988","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=6988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}