{"id":7220,"date":"2021-06-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2021-06-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T05:00:00","slug":"the-wiles-of-the-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-wiles-of-the-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wiles of the Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-06-21\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Tacoma Times, June 21, 1913<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n I know just the way that the game should be played;\n I\u2019d studied the manner of wooing a maid,\n I knew all the tricks of the love-making trade\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the wiles of the girls\u2014I could spot \u2018em;\n I\u2019d be wise as a serpent\u2014though soft as a dove,\n And each turn of the game I was cognizant of.\n Yes, I knew just the ways to behave in love,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But when I met Her\u2014I forgot \u2018em.\n \n Forgot every rule and forgot every wile,\n Forgot every stunt I had learned to beguile,\n And fell at her feet in the untutored style\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of a boy who was eighteen or twenty.\n So don\u2019t be too sure of your skill when you woo,\n For when you\u2019re in love you don\u2019t know what you\u2019ll do,\n And you\u2019ll certainly get what is coming to you,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And, take it from me, that is plenty!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Tacoma Times, June 21, 1913. I know just the way that the game should be played; I\u2019d studied the manner of wooing a maid, I knew all the tricks of the love-making trade \u00a0 \u00a0 And the wiles of the girls\u2014I could spot \u2018em; I\u2019d be wise as a serpent\u2014though soft as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220","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=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}