{"id":7527,"date":"2021-09-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7527"},"modified":"2021-09-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:00:00","slug":"pros-and-cons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/pros-and-cons\/","title":{"rendered":"Pros and Cons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1913-09-29\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Omaha Daily Bee, September 29, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Con<\/strong>sider, ere you take a wife,<br>The <strong>pro<\/strong>s and <strong>con<\/strong>s of wedded life.<br><strong>Pro<\/strong>tracted wedlock\u2019s safe to show<br>Vices <strong>con<\/strong>tracted long ago\u2014<br>The <strong>pro<\/strong>duct of the honeymoon<br>Appears in <strong>con<\/strong>duct, very soon.<br>\u2019Tis bliss <strong>pro<\/strong>found to love, no doubt<br>But cares <strong>con<\/strong>found when love\u2019s burnt out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pro<\/strong>fessions maidens deem their due,<br>But wives demand <strong>con<\/strong>fessions, too!<br>Where maids the merest <strong>pro<\/strong>test heed,<br>A vigorous <strong>con<\/strong>test wives oft need!<br>The maid <strong>con<\/strong>vokes the joys of life,<br>The wife <strong>pro<\/strong>vokes\u2014this leads to strife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hugs in <strong>pro<\/strong>fusion maids allot<br><strong>Con<\/strong>fusion is the underplot!<br>Yet doubtless wedlocks <strong>pro<\/strong>duct should,<br>All said and done, <strong>con<\/strong>duce to good\u2014<br>In the <strong>pro<\/strong>cession, if you\u2019d take<br>Your <strong>pro<\/strong>per place, <strong>con<\/strong>cessions make\u2014<br>The <strong>pro<\/strong>vince of this humble verse<br>Is to <strong>con<\/strong>vince\u2014things might be worse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha Daily Bee, September 29, 1913. Consider, ere you take a wife,The pros and cons of wedded life.Protracted wedlock\u2019s safe to showVices contracted long ago\u2014The product of the honeymoonAppears in conduct, very soon.\u2019Tis bliss profound to love, no doubtBut cares confound when love\u2019s burnt out. Professions maidens deem their due,But wives demand confessions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527","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=7527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}