{"id":7300,"date":"2021-07-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2021-07-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T05:00:00","slug":"first-one-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/first-one-in\/","title":{"rendered":"First One In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-07-20\/ed-1\/seq-40\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, July 20, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the happy youngsters,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Racing through the wood,<br>For the old loved water<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Where the swimming\u2019s good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now they\u2019re at the pool side,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And with shout and jest<br>Each strives in undressing<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; To outdo the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then white limbs a moment<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; In the sunlight gleam,<br>As a lithe young body<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Cleaves the glassy stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then a head emerges,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And above the din<br>Rings the cry of triumph,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m the first one in!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the happy youngsters,<br \/>\n    Racing through the wood,<br \/>\nFor the old loved water<br \/>\n    Where the swimming\u2019s good.<\/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-7300","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\/7300","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=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}