{"id":6994,"date":"2021-01-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2021-01-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:00:00","slug":"reuben-buys-a-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/reuben-buys-a-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuben Buys a Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1913-01-21\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Omaha Daily Bee, January 21, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Minna Irving.<\/em>\n \n\n The day was bright and sunny,\n And business going well.\n But Reuben in his office\n A prey to dreaming fell.\n He thought of woods and meadows\n With all their sylvan charm.\n \u201cGood bye, old town,\u201d he murmured,\n \u201cFor Reuben buys a farm.\u201d\n \n He found a roomy dwelling\n With roses round the door.\n A covered well behind it,\n A picket fence before.\n And ancient apple-orchards\n Where sang, secure from harm,\n An orchestra of robins,\n So Reuben bought the farm.\n \n But getting up so early\n To milk by lantern-light,\n And feed the pigs and chickens,\n Was not unmixed delight.\n A pain was in his shoulder,\n A cramp was in his arm,\n And life was full of trouble\n For Reuben on the farm.\n \n He loved his growing garden\n And pleasant pasture lands;\n But not his aching muscles\n And badly blistered hands.\n The household gathered round him\n And viewed him with alarm.\n \u201cWe all,\u201d they said, \u201cshould hustle\n When Reuben buys a farm.\u201d\n \n Now Paul attends the horses,\n The cows are Mary\u2019s care,\n The pigs and geese and chickens\n Jeannette\u2019s attention share.\n And George in ducks discovers\n A never-failing charm.\n So everybody\u2019s happy\n While Reuben runs the farm.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The day was bright and sunny,<br \/>\n And business going well.<br \/>\n But Reuben in his office<br \/>\n A prey to dreaming fell.<\/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":[237],"class_list":["post-6994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-minna-irving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994","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=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}