{"id":7187,"date":"2021-06-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2021-06-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T05:00:00","slug":"a-gilded-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-gilded-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gilded Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-06-08\/ed-1\/seq-22\/\"><em>Evening Star, June 8, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n We was feelin\u2019 somewhat sporty, down to Pohick-on-the-Crick.\n We figured out a hoss race as a neat an\u2019 fancy trick.\n We fenced the track off proper an\u2019 we laid the distance out,\n An\u2019 we sent requests for entries to the neighbors \u2018round about.\n We didn\u2019t give nobody any chance to sneer or snub;\n We made all comers members of the Pohick Jockey Club.\n There was only jes\u2019 one little drawback to the fun;\n The hosses was so busy that they hadn\u2019t time to run.\n \n Joe Struthers had to keep his mare a-haulin\u2019 stuff to town.\n We couldn\u2019t git the hosses that belong to Ezry Brown\n Because, like many others, they are occupied jes\u2019 now\n In fillin\u2019 their engagements with a harrow or a plow.\n The only equine candidate fur glory an\u2019 fur fame\n Was Uncle Eben\u2019s mule that\u2019s been laid up because it\u2019s lame.\n Us men folks all went back to work a-realizin\u2019 quick\n That hoss sense ought to set the pace at Pohick-on-the-Crick.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We was feelin\u2019 somewhat sporty, down to Pohick-on-the-Crick.<br \/>\n We figured out a hoss race as a neat an\u2019 fancy trick.<\/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-7187","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\/7187","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=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}