{"id":7218,"date":"2021-06-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2021-06-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T05:00:00","slug":"the-original-r-r-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-original-r-r-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original R. R. Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-06-20\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, June 20, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n We\u2019ve got a railroad problem down to Pohick on the Crick.\n We\u2019ve heard about stock tickers an\u2019 manipulation slick,\n But we ain\u2019t a-takin\u2019 sides with any bulls or any bears.\n If we get ours we won\u2019t object to them a-gettin\u2019 theirs.\n Whenever we are drivin\u2019 through the rough an\u2019 heavy road\n We wish we could get out an\u2019 help the horses pull the load;\n An\u2019 we\u2019re haunted by the echoes of a whistle far away,\n Where folks kin see a locomotive passin\u2019 every day.\n \n We held a meetin\u2019 an\u2019 discussed the railroad problem there.\n We didn\u2019t say a word about the freight rates or the fare.\n We didn\u2019t talk of watered stock or policies unjust.\n There\u2019s time enough to kick. You want to get your railroad fust.\n A cozy little station an\u2019 some trains a-makin\u2019 time\n Would lift us for the present to a height of joy sublime.\n Jes\u2019 any kind of railroad, runnin\u2019 slow or runnin\u2019 quick,\n Is all that we demand to date, at Pohick on the Crick.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We\u2019ve got a railroad problem down to Pohick on the Crick.<br \/>\n We\u2019ve heard about stock tickers an\u2019 manipulation slick,<\/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-7218","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\/7218","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=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}