{"id":7191,"date":"2021-06-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2021-06-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T05:00:00","slug":"a-modern-courting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-modern-courting\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Courting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1913-06-10\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\"><em>The Seattle Star, June 10, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n Miss Nancy O\u2019Neill was a suffragette lady,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Decidedly militant, too,\n Who was loved by an Irishman, Martin O\u2019Grady,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But vainly indeed, did he woo;\n For Nancy was busy at blowing up houses\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And kicking the chancellor\u2019s cat,\n And so had no time to be thinking of spouses\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or frivolous subjects like that.\n \n With bon bons and flowers poor Martin pursued her,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But Nancy was deaf to his suit.\n Though gently and sweetly and kindly he wooed her\n \u00a0 \u00a0 At all his proposals she\u2019d hoot.\n Till finally, wearied of being so tender,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 So patient and placid and calm,\n He gave up the homage he once used to render\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And sent her a dynamite bomb.\n \n He trampled her garden with ardor most fervent,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Cast bricks through her window with zest,\n Set fire to the house and abducted her servant,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Attempted to poison her guest;\n So Nancy said, \u201cHow can I EVER resist him?\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Such militance beats me,\u201d she said;\n So she put her fair arms round his neck and she kissed him,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And now they are happily wed.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Miss Nancy O\u2019Neill was a suffragette lady,<br \/>\n     Decidedly militant, too,<br \/>\n Who was love by an Irishman, Martin O\u2019Grady,<br \/>\n     But vainly indeed, did he woo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","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=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}