{"id":7161,"date":"2021-05-31T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2021-05-31T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T05:00:00","slug":"an-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/an-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"An Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1913-05-31\/ed-1\/seq-14\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, May 31, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em>\n \n\n The office boy\u2019s grandmother dies\n \u00a0 \u00a0 At least three times a week;\n The bookkeeper develops ills\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of which he\u2019s apt to speak.\n \n The ribbon clerk abruptly jumps\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His job at 3 p. m.\n He says his kids have got the mumps\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And he must go to them.\n \n The boss does not feel well himself,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And thinks he needs fresh air;\n He goes out to the baseball park\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And finds his help all there.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The office boy\u2019s grandmother dies<br \/>\n     At least three times a week;<br \/>\n The bookkeeper develops ills<br \/>\n     Of which he\u2019s apt to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","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=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}