{"id":7097,"date":"2021-05-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2021-05-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:00:00","slug":"were-all-a-fishin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/were-all-a-fishin\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re All A-Fishin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83016689\/1913-05-05\/ed-1\/seq-10\/\"><em>The Detroit Times, May 5, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Frank R. Leet.<\/em>\n \n\n Pop sez that this world we live in\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is one big fishin\u2019 pond\n An\u2019 we\u2019ve all been fishin\u2019 fer somethin\u2019\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Since th\u2019 time the first day dawned.\n \n He sez some are fishin\u2019 fer trouble\n \u00a0 \u00a0 An\u2019 others are fishin\u2019 fer fame\n An\u2019 the banks of life are alive with girls\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A-fishin\u2019 to change their names.\n \n He sez the grafters are fishin\u2019 fer suckers\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Newly weds are fishin\u2019 fer bliss\n Ministers are fishin\u2019 fer souls to save\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The lover to hook a kiss.\n \n He sez the vain ones are fishin\u2019 fer compliments\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The bums are fishin\u2019 fer booze\n The nabobs are fishin\u2019 fer diamonds and things\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The poor fer food and shoes.\n \n He sez that we\u2019re at it all of the time\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A-fishin\u2019 fer what we wish\n So, when I\u2019m not really a-fishin\u2019 fer fish\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019m fishin\u2019 to fish fer fish.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Pop sez that this world we live in<br \/>\n     Is one big fishin\u2019 pond<br \/>\n An\u2019 we\u2019ve all been fishin\u2019 fer somethin\u2019<br \/>\n     Since th\u2019 time the first day dawned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-detroit-times","tag-frank-r-leet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","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=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}