{"id":7045,"date":"2021-04-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7045"},"modified":"2021-04-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T05:00:00","slug":"pipe-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/pipe-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipe Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/1913-04-13\/ed-1\/seq-24\/\"><em>New York Tribune, April 13, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Herbert Kaufman.<\/em>\n \n\n A fig for your flagons of sour old wine!\n Let others seeks solace in beer\u2014\n I don\u2019t give a slam for the joys of the dram,\n It brings me no comfort nor cheer!\n I\u2019ve no sorrows to drown,\n I am free from care\u2019s frown,\n My morrows with promise are ripe,\n I don\u2019t need a thing, I\u2019m as good as a king,\n So long as I puff on my pipe.\n \n Just give me my pipe and a well laden pouch,\n And leave me alone with myself;\n I have more than enough while I sit here and puff,\n And forget about passions and pelf.\n You may toast as you please to the ladies who tease,\n And fuddle your senses with wine;\n But I know of no bliss that is equal to this\u2014\n I\u2019m content with this old pipe of mine.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A fig for your flagons of sour old wine!<br \/>\n Let others seeks solace in beer\u2014<br \/>\n I don\u2019t give a slam for the joys of the dram,<br \/>\n It brings me no comfort nor cheer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-7045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tribune","category-newspapers","tag-herbert-kaufman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045","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=7045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}