{"id":7091,"date":"2021-05-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2021-05-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T05:00:00","slug":"kissing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/kissing-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissing Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1913-05-02\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Omaha Daily Bee, May 2, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Edgar A. Guest.<\/em>\n \n\n I watched them playing kissing games\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And chuckled to myself\n As I recalled the days before\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Time put me on the shelf.\n I watched that roguish lad of mine\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Salute each pretty miss\n With all the gusto that I showed\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When I was wont to kiss.\n \n But I am on the sidelines now\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And he is in the game\n And he is hugging pretty girls\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With eyes and cheeks aflame.\n And there\u2019s no special one to pout\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or raise a fuss when he\n Distributes his affections thus\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The way there is with me.\n \n What though he kiss a dozen maids\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And give them all a squeeze,\n Nobody sternly says to him:\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cWhat means this conduct, please?\u201d\n Nobody stamps a pretty foot\n \u00a0 \u00a0 At him or starts to cry\n But this will come, when these glad years\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of youth have wandered by.\n \n \u201cJust like his dad,\u201d I hear her say,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And note her gentle smile;\n And I retort, \u201cThis freedom will\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But last a little while.\n Perhaps one of these lassies sweet\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Will some day rule his life\n And yet I hope, that like his dad\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He\u2019ll choose as good a wife.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I watched them playing kissing games<br \/>\n     And chuckled to myself<br \/>\n As I recalled the days before<br \/>\n     Time put me on the shelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-7091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-edgar-a-guest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091","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=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}