{"id":7515,"date":"2021-09-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7515"},"modified":"2021-09-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T05:00:00","slug":"the-one-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-one-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"The One to Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045433\/1913-09-23\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Washington Herald, September 23, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When there\u2019s a dreadful railroad wreck,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Or accidents appear,<br>Officials nearly break a neck<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; To pinch the engineer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The engineer, he went to sleep,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The havoc was immense.<br>Of course we hold resentment deep,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; But some day we\u2019ll get sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll pinch the railroad\u2019s ruler then<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And have him put away;<br>The jolly chap who makes his men<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Work eighteen hours a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Washington Herald, September 23, 1913.&nbsp; When there\u2019s a dreadful railroad wreck,&nbsp; &nbsp; Or accidents appear,Officials nearly break a neck&nbsp; &nbsp; To pinch the engineer. The engineer, he went to sleep,&nbsp; &nbsp; The havoc was immense.Of course we hold resentment deep,&nbsp; &nbsp; But some day we\u2019ll get sense. We\u2019ll pinch the railroad\u2019s ruler then&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515","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=7515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}