{"id":7003,"date":"2021-02-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2021-02-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:00:00","slug":"grand-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/grand-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Opry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1913-02-03\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, February 3, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em>\n \n\n Grand Opry as a form of entertainment can\u2019t be beat.\n I love to cough up ten good bones and buy myself a seat.\n To hear some howling tenor from some low-browed foreign land\n Come forth and yell a lot of stuff that I can\u2019t understand.\n \n I simply dote on listenin\u2019 for several mortal hours\n While them high-priced sopranners exercise their vocal powers.\n I think I get my money\u2019s worth. Oh yes, of course I do\n And I am always sorry when the jamboree is through.\n \n There\u2019s nothing I like half so well and for a chance to go\n I\u2019d walk five miles in my bare feet right through the ice and snow.\n I know what you are thinking, I\u2019ve got your thought wave quite-\n You\u2019re thinking I\u2019m a liar and I guess you\u2019re thinking right.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Grand Opry as a form of entertainment can\u2019t be beat.<br \/>\n I love to cough up ten good bones and buy myself a seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","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=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}