{"id":7531,"date":"2021-10-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7531"},"modified":"2021-10-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T05:00:00","slug":"the-spendthrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-spendthrift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spendthrift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Detroit Times, October 1, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I had saved each penny
    Which foolishly I spent,
I\u2019d doubtless now have many
    To keep me well content.
If I had thought and pondered
    About each single sou,
I doubtless would have squandered
    At most a very few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while the cash was clinking
    Within my portly purse
I spent it without thinking
    For better or for worse,
And now I\u2019m pretty seedy
    And badly out at heels.
In fact, I\u2019m broke and needy
    And ravenous for meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah, me, I\u2019ve been a dancer
    To all the pipes they played,
And\u2014well, you see the answer
    Before you here displayed;
The primrose path is sunny,
    But I am broke and done;
I should have saved the money\u2014
    But I\u2019d have missed the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Detroit Times, October 1, 1913. By Berton Braley. If I had saved each penny    Which foolishly I spent,I\u2019d doubtless now have many    To keep me well content.If I had thought and pondered    About each single sou,I doubtless would have squandered    At most a very few. But while the cash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-detroit-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531","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=7531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}