{"id":7124,"date":"2021-05-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2021-05-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T05:00:00","slug":"my-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/my-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-05-17\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, May 17, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n My pa is not a millionaire,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He\u2019s never been elected yet\n To any office anywhere,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s lots of things that we can\u2019t get;\n Ma often wishes we could buy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The costly things the neighbors do;\n The price of livin\u2019 is so high\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We have to skimp and worry through.\n \n I guess my pa was never meant\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To be a leader in the strife;\n Ma says he\u2019ll not be president\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Nor get ahead much in this life.\n But he can make a whistle, though\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Just from a piece of willow tree;\n I wish that you could see the bow\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And arrow that he fixed for me.\n \n My pa gets paid so much a week\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Because he doesn\u2019t own a store;\n Ma says if he was not so meek\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And mild he might be drawin\u2019 more.\n We have no car nor runabout\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And nearly always have to save;\n Ma\u2019s heart is often full of doubt,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But pa keeps hopin\u2019 and is brave.\n \n Sometimes I help him in the yard\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When he comes home on Saturdays;\n I\u2019m sorry he must work so hard\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And wish that he could get a raise;\n Most all the time ma needs a lot\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of things we can\u2019t afford, and which\n The neighbors nearly all have got\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Because they managed to get rich.\n \n My pa sometimes takes me away\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Out in the country for fresh air;\n We build dams in the streams and play\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That both of us are boys, out there;\n Ma says that pa, long, long ago\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Just got to be a mere machine;\n I wouldn\u2019t want to trade him, though\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For any pa I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> My pa is not a millionaire,<br \/>\n     He\u2019s never been elected yet<br \/>\n To any office anywhere,<br \/>\n     There\u2019s lots of things that we can\u2019t get;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-s-e-kiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","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=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}