{"id":7354,"date":"2021-08-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2021-08-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:00:00","slug":"the-self-important-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-self-important-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Self Important Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-08-01\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, August 1, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young man who wore flaming ties<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Was loudly heard to say<br>He\u2019d like to take a little rest,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; But could not get away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems he thought the busy firm<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; For which he was a clerk<br>Would only last the briefest time<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; If he should stop from work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, if ever he got fired<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Some morning by the boss,<br>The people he says need him so<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Would scarcely feel his loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world is full of men like that<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Whose self-inflation\u2019s such<br>They think this world without their aid<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Would not amount to much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, August 1, 1913. A young man who wore flaming ties&nbsp; &nbsp; Was loudly heard to sayHe\u2019d like to take a little rest,&nbsp; &nbsp; But could not get away. It seems he thought the busy firm&nbsp; &nbsp; For which he was a clerkWould only last the briefest time&nbsp; &nbsp; If he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7354","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\/7354","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=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}