{"id":7316,"date":"2021-07-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7316"},"modified":"2021-07-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T05:00:00","slug":"summer-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/summer-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Omaha Daily Bee, July 28, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Arthur Chapman.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ere Jones went on his prized vacation
    He said, \u201cI\u2019ll need some books to read;
\u2019Twill add unto my recreation
    If I can scan a fiction screed.\u201d
So to the phone soon Jones was turning,
    And to the book store sent a call;
\u201cFor fiction,\u201d quoth Jones, \u201cI am yearning,
    So send the new books\u2014send them all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, next morn, ere Jones was leaving,
    Two moving vans stopped at his door;
The driver asked, \u201cShall we be heaving
    These books upon the lawn or floor?
There\u2019s seven more loads on the way, sir\u2014
    Three motorcycle loads beside;
The fiction crop this year they say, sir,
    Is heavy\u2014that can\u2019t be denied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Jones rushed out and saw them carting
    Love tales and \u201ccrook\u201d yarns by the ton;
\u201cOh, what,\u201d he cried with optics starting,
    \u201cIs this mad thing that I have done?\u201d
And straightaway in a heap he tumbled\u2014
    The ambulance took him away\u2014
But still the fiction order rumbled
    Up to the Jones front door all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ere Jones went on his prized vacation
\n He said, \u201cI\u2019ll need some books to read;
\n\u2019Twill add unto my recreation
\n If I can scan a fiction screed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-7316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-arthur-chapman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316","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=7316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}