{"id":7037,"date":"2021-04-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7037"},"modified":"2021-04-09T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:00:00","slug":"the-policeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-policeman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Policeman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-04-09\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, April 9, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Spite of all the churlish chatter\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It is quite a serious matter\n To become a proper guardian of the peace.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You must have a disposition\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That would fit you for a mission\n To Turkey or the Balkans or to Greece.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You must treat the children kindly,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And when people jostle blindly\n At a crowded crossing \u2018mid the dust and noise,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You must grab a perfect stranger\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And convey him out of danger\n In a way that won\u2019t disturb his equipoise.\n \n \u00a0 \u00a0 You must learn the regulations,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And likewise the laws of nations,\n To avoid the chance of diplomatic jar.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You must listen uncomplaining,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 All your sense of mirth restraining,\n While they come to tell you what their troubles are.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You should have a fund of knowledge\n \u00a0 \u00a0 More than could be learned at college,\n To assist each weary wanderer in distress.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And your compensation should be\n \u00a0 \u00a0 All a bank director\u2019s could be\u2014\n Though I fancy it\u2019s considerably less.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>     Spite of all the churlish chatter<br \/>\n     It is quite a serious matter<br \/>\n To become a proper guardian of the peace.<br \/>\n     You must have a disposition<br \/>\n     That would fit you for a mission<br \/>\n To Turkey or the Balkans or to Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-7037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037","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=7037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}