{"id":7197,"date":"2021-06-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2021-06-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:00:00","slug":"outside-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/outside-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside Interference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-06-11\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, June 11, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n We are feelin\u2019 some excited down to Pohick-on-the-Crick.\n We used to run the village in a manner smooth an\u2019 slick;\n But we suddenly discovered with astonishment profound\n We had a lot o\u2019 lobbyists a-campin\u2019 on the ground!\n You see, a lobbyist ain\u2019t always one that works for pay.\n He\u2019s just a man that hangs around an\u2019 wants to have his say.\n He\u2019ll flatter or persuade you or he\u2019ll rile you an\u2019 make fun\n In hopes to make you do things jes\u2019 the way he wants \u2018em done.\n \n You can\u2019t repair your fence or break a colt or shoe a mare\n Without Joe Struthers gives the job his supervisin\u2019 care.\n An\u2019 old Zeb Tunkins drops around not meanin\u2019 any harm\n An\u2019 tells you what\u2019s the matter with the way you run your farm.\n Si Simlin criticizes all the efforts that you make\n An\u2019 Huldy Woggins wants to teach your wife to broil an\u2019 bake.\n We want investigatin\u2019 an\u2019 we want it good and quick.\n There\u2019s too much lobbyin\u2019 down here to Pohick-on-the-Crick!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We are feelin\u2019 some excited down to Pohick-on-the-Crick.<br \/>\n We used to run the village in a manner smooth an\u2019 slick;<br \/>\n But we suddenly discovered with astonishment profound<br \/>\n We had a lot o\u2019 lobbyists a-campin\u2019 on the ground!<\/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-7197","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\/7197","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=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}