{"id":7146,"date":"2021-05-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2021-05-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T05:00:00","slug":"still-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/still-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Still With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-05-24\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, May 24, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Oh, the dear old funny story\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Still appearing in its glory\u2014\n What a train of memories it will invite!\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It will bring fond recollections\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of the humorous reflections\n That the lecturers would stand up and recite.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Each comedian rehearsed it\n \u00a0 \u00a0 After-dinner speakers nursed it\n We would hear it set to music light and gay.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Even leaders of the nation\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As a means of illustration\n In their speeches kept it going on its way.\n \n \u00a0 \u00a0 Ivy climbs upon the steeple\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the faces of the people\n Are wrinkling and their hair is turning gray;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the landmarks of each city\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Slowly crumble\u2014more\u2019s the pity\u2014\n Till improvements come and sweep them all away.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But that good old comic whimsy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Though it seemed so wan and flimsy\n Still provides a glint of fiction or of truth.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s a wondrous demonstration\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of the one thing in creation\n That rejoices in an everlasting youth.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>     Oh, the dear old funny story<br \/>\n     Still appearing in its glory\u2014<br \/>\n What a train of memories it will invite!<br \/>\n     It will bring fond recollections<br \/>\n     Of the humorous reflections<br \/>\n That the lecturers would stand up and recite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","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=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}