{"id":7199,"date":"2021-06-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2021-06-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T05:00:00","slug":"a-suspicious-circumstance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-suspicious-circumstance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Suspicious Circumstance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-06-12\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, June 12, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n I met a happy fisherman\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Exhibiting his catch;\n He seemed to think his finny spoils\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Were very hard to match.\n \n I did not see him pull them out\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of any lake or brook;\n I did not see him drop his line\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Nor lightly bait his hook.\n \n I did not even see him go\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And come back laden down;\n But simply met him as he strolled\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Quite chestily through town.\n \n I do not seek a method of\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Discrediting his tale,\n But he was near a market place\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where there were fish for sale.\n \n And as I poked a finger out\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Remarking, \u201cThis one\u2019s nice,\u201d\n It felt so cold I could have sworn\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That fish had been on ice.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I met a happy fisherman<br \/>\n     Exhibiting his catch;<br \/>\n He seemed to think his finny spoils<br \/>\n     Were very hard to match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199","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=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}