{"id":7001,"date":"2021-02-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2021-02-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T06:00:00","slug":"zoological-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/zoological-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoological Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-02-01\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, February 1, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n Certain creatures oft heard of, pray who ever saw?\n There\u2019s the camel whose back broke beneath the last straw.\n There\u2019s the wonderful goose that laid eggs of pure gold,\n And the bull that got in where the china was sold.\n There\u2019s the ass that the skin of a lion doth wear,\n And the wrong pig we frequently get by the ear.\n The wild horses that never, no never could drag\n Us somewhere\u2014there\u2019s the cat we let out of the bag.\n There\u2019s the bird that goes whispering secrets around,\n Whoever has seen it, whoever has found?\n There\u2019s the oft-mentioned dog in the manger that stands,\n And the elephant someone has got on his hands.\n There\u2019s the ravenous wolf from our doors that we keep,\n And the wolf that goes round in the clothing of sheep.\n There\u2019s the nightmare that somebody tells us they\u2019ve had.\n There\u2019s the cat with nine lives and the March hare that\u2019s mad.\n And the fox that declared that the high grapes were sour,\n And the grim dogs of war\u2014it would take quite an hour\n Just to list all the odd, freakish creatures that we\n Nearly every day hear of, but never once see.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Certain creatures oft heard of, pray who ever saw?<br \/>\n There\u2019s the camel whose back broke beneath the last straw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001","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=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}