{"id":7039,"date":"2021-04-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2021-04-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T05:00:00","slug":"the-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1913-04-10\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\"><em>The Seattle Star, April 10, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n It\u2019s pleasant on the upper deck\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where ocean breezes blow\n To lazy in a steamer chair\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And watch the waves that flow;\n It\u2019s pleasant on the upper deck,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But mighty hot below.\n \n There\u2019s fun upon the upper deck\n \u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s mirth and laughter free,\n There\u2019s music on the upper deck\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As gay as it can be.\n But it\u2019s the boilers down below\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That drives her through the sea.\n \n It\u2019s fine upon the upper deck\n \u00a0 \u00a0 While downward, near the keel,\n The blaze will make you nearly blind,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The heat will make you reel.\n But we\u2019re the boys who make the steam\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That drives the shaft of steel.\n \n The people on the upper deck,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They only pays their way;\n We stokers in the boiler room,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We envies such as they.\n But we\u2014we drives the bloomin\u2019 ship,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 While they\u2014they only play!\n \n There always is an upper deck\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And boilers down below,\n And them that\u2019s on the upper deck,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They think they\u2019re all the show.\n But it\u2019s the fellows near the keel\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That makes the vessel go.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> It\u2019s pleasant on the upper deck<br \/>\n     Where ocean breezes blow<br \/>\n To lazy in a steamer chair<br \/>\n     And watch the waves that flow;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","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=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}