{"id":7234,"date":"2021-06-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2021-06-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T05:00:00","slug":"the-owld-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-owld-names\/","title":{"rendered":"The Owld Names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84026749\/1913-06-26\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>The Washington Times, June 26, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Eugene Geary.<\/em>\n \n\n The good owld names are dyin\u2019 out\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We called our children dear;\n No wonder that we\u2019re talked about\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s worser every year.\n We used to have the names iv saints\n \u00a0 \u00a0 An\u2019 marthyrs at our call;\n To mention them now brings complaints\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Och, that\u2019s the worst iv all!\n \n There\u2019s Pat an\u2019 Bridget Finnegan,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who called their daughter Maude,\n An\u2019 may I never sin again,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Their youngest b\u2019y is Claude.\n An\u2019 when me next-dure neighbor\u2019s wife\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Prisints a young gossoon,\n He\u2019s doomed to travel all thro\u2019 life\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As Percy George McCune.\n \n Besides, there\u2019s Pether Rafferty,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who hates the owld green sod,\n Tho\u2019 tisn\u2019t many years since he\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Was carryin\u2019 the hod.\n He an\u2019 his wife\u2014\u2018twould make ye wild\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Announce, wid pride an\u2019 glee,\n The marriage of their only child,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Miss Genevieve Maree.\n \n The names iv grand owld Irish Kings\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We\u2019ll never hear them more;\n Instead they have new-fangled things\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Begob, it makes me sore.\n The hayroes, saints an\u2019 marthyrs, too,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 No longer have the call.\n Our race will soon be lost to view\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Sure, that\u2019s the worst iv all.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The good owld names are dyin\u2019 out<br \/>\n     We called our children dear;<br \/>\n No wonder that we\u2019re talked about\u2014<br \/>\n     It\u2019s worser every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-7234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-times","tag-eugene-geary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","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=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}