{"id":6998,"date":"2021-01-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2021-01-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:00:00","slug":"the-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84024827\/1913-01-28\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Bisbee Daily Review, January 28, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em>\n \n\n My father says the paper somehow ain\u2019t got up just right.\n He finds a lot of fault with it when he reads it at night.\n He says there ain\u2019t a gol dum thing in it worth while to read,\n And that it doesn\u2019t print the kind of stuff the people need.\n He tosses it aside and says it\u2019s strictly \u201con the bum\u201d\u2014\n But you ought to hear the holler when the paper doesn\u2019t come.\n \n He reads about the weddin\u2019s and he snorts like all git out.\n He reads the social doin\u2019s with a most derisive shout.\n He says they make the papers for the wimmen folks alone.\n He\u2019ll read about the parties and he\u2019ll fume and fret and groan;\n He says of information it does not contain a crumb\n But you ought to hear him holler when the paper doesn\u2019t come.\n \n He\u2019s always first to grab it and he reads it plumb clear through.\n He doesn\u2019t miss an item or a want ad\u2014that is true.\n He says, \u201cThey don\u2019t know what we want, them durn newspaper guys;\n I\u2019m goin\u2019 to take a day some time and go and put \u2018em wise.\n It sometimes seems as though they must be deaf and blind and dumb\u201d\u2014\n But you ought to hear him holler when the paper doesn\u2019t come.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> My father says the paper somehow ain\u2019t got up just right.<br \/>\n He finds a lot of fault with it when he reads it at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bisbee-daily-review","category-newspapers","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","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=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}