{"id":7104,"date":"2021-05-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7104"},"modified":"2021-05-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T05:00:00","slug":"john-barleycorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/john-barleycorn\/","title":{"rendered":"John Barleycorn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1913-05-08\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Seattle Star, May 8, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>(Acknowledgements to Jack London)<\/em>\n \n\n He\u2019s just around the corner\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He\u2019s just across the street\n His voice is warm and comradely\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His words are soft and sweet.\n He poses as ADVENTURE\n \u00a0 \u00a0 All debonair and brave\n Though all the deeds of Barleycorn\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Lead only to the grave.\n \n He comes to you with laughter\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He comes to you with song\n With soothing lies to trick the weak\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And glamour for the strong.\n Along the road that you must tread\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Wherever you may fare\n At every turn or resting place\n \u00a0 \u00a0 John Barleycorn is there!\n \n He masquerades as valor\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He swaggers as romance\n And down the road of broken hopes\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He leads the merry dance.\n His eyes are red and gloating\n \u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s poison on his breath\n For call him any name you will\n \u00a0 \u00a0 John Barleycorn is death.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He\u2019s just around the corner<br \/>\n     He\u2019s just across the street<br \/>\n His voice is warm and comradely<br \/>\n     His words are soft and sweet.<\/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":[178],"class_list":["post-7104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-jack-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104","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=7104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}