{"id":7385,"date":"2021-08-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2021-08-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T05:00:00","slug":"whos-got-a-job-for-the-panama-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/whos-got-a-job-for-the-panama-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Got a Job for the Panama Gang?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Birmingham Age Herald, August 16, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we are, gentlemen; here\u2019s the whole gang of us,
    Pretty near through with the job we are on;
Size up our work\u2014it will give you hang of us\u2014
    South to Balboa and north to Colon.
Yes, the canal is our letter of reference;
    Look at Culebra and glance at Gatun;
What can we do for you\u2014got any preference,
    Wireless to Saturn or bridge to the moon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t send us back to a life that is flat again,
    We who have shattered a continent\u2019s spine;
Office work\u2014Lord, but we couldn\u2019t do that again!
    Haven\u2019t you something that\u2019s more in our line?
Got any river they say isn\u2019t crossable?
    Got any mountains that can\u2019t be cut through?
We specialize in the wholly impossible,
    Doing things \u201cnobody ever could do!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a good look at the whole husky crew of us,
    Engineers, doctors, and steam-shovel men;
Taken together you\u2019ll find quite a few of us
    Soon to be ready for trouble again.
Bronzed by the tropical sun that is blistery,
    Chuckful of energy, vigor and tang,
Trained by a task that\u2019s the biggest in history,
    Who has a job for the Panama gang?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Birmingham Age Herald, August 16, 1913. By Berton Braley. Here we are, gentlemen; here\u2019s the whole gang of us,    Pretty near through with the job we are on;Size up our work\u2014it will give you hang of us\u2014    South to Balboa and north to Colon.Yes, the canal is our letter of reference;  […]<\/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":[66],"class_list":["post-7385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","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=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}