{"id":6991,"date":"2020-10-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2020-10-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T05:00:00","slug":"the-disappearing-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-disappearing-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disappearing Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1912-10-14\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Seattle Star, October 14, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n I never can figure my bank account out,\n I\u2019m always in trouble and always in doubt,\n And just when I think I have lots to go on\n The bank sends a notice\u2014\u201caccount overdrawn.\u201d\n I don\u2019t understand it; I fuss and I fret,\n But I can\u2019t make the bank \u201cget me,\u201d you bet.\n They point to their figures and I must remit,\n Although I can\u2019t see any reason for it.\n \n I\u2019m sure I am right in the balance I claim,\n But they make me come through when they ask, just the same.\n And they smile in a way condescending and bland,\n When I say that their system I can\u2019t understand;\n For this is the puzzle my brain cells to vex\u2014\n Why doesn\u2019t my money keep pace with my checks?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I never can figure my bank account out,<br \/>\n I\u2019m always in trouble and always in doubt,<br \/>\n And just when I think I have lots to go on<br \/>\n The bank sends a notice\u2014\u201caccount overdrawn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-6991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991","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=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}