{"id":7175,"date":"2021-06-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2021-06-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T05:00:00","slug":"just-to-be-a-boy-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/just-to-be-a-boy-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Just to Be a Boy Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-06-02\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, June 2, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n \u201cJust to be a child again,\u201d sighed the millionaire,\n \u201cKnowing not what woe exists, free from every care;\n Just to be a child again, filled with boyish glee,\n Free from all the ills I bear and from sorrows free.\u201d\n \n \u2018Round the corner lay a boy, fretting in his bed.\n \u201cGee, I wisht I was a man,\u201d dismally he said.\n \u201cEvery season seems to bring some disease, somehow.\n Had the scarlet fever last - got the measles now.\n \n \u201cYes, I\u2019ve had the chicken-pox and the jaundice, too;\n \u2018Spose I\u2019ll have the mumps the next - always something new;\n When you\u2019re sick there ain\u2019t no fun, \u2018cause you feel so bad;\n When you\u2019re well you go to school - gee, but life is sad!\u201d\n \n \u201cJust to be a boy,\u201d the man murmured with a sigh,\n \u201cFree to frolic as I pleased, all things yet to try;\n Ah, how small men\u2019s triumphs are, what a price we pay\n For the little that we get as we scheme away.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cJust to be a child again,\u201d sighed the millionaire,<br \/>\n \u201cKnowing not what woe exists, free from every care;<br \/>\n Just to be a child again, filled with boyish glee,<br \/>\n Free from all the ills I bear and from sorrows free.\u201d<\/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-7175","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\/7175","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=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}