{"id":7569,"date":"2021-10-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7569"},"modified":"2021-10-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T05:00:00","slug":"uncles-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/uncles-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle’s Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Evening Star, October 15, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Uncle Jim has done \u2018most everything there is to do.
He says life\u2019s not worth livin\u2019 when there isn\u2019t something new
To hold a man\u2019s attention. He has tamed a buckin\u2019 hoss
And drove in trottin\u2019 races without grumblin\u2019 at the loss.
He has taken railroad journeys an\u2019 he\u2019s viewed the buildin\u2019s high;
He\u2019s lost a stack of poker chips an\u2019 never blinked an eye.
But his latest fad\u2019s the queerest that has ever come to him.
He\u2019s writin\u2019 poetry! Jes\u2019 think of that fur Uncle Jim!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He writes about the stable an\u2019 the haystack an\u2019 the cows
An\u2019 comes as near profanity as the police allows.
He jiggles an\u2019 he joggles till he gets \u2018round to a rhyme
An\u2019 don\u2019t keer what he says, so long as he is keepin\u2019 time!
We used to think he\u2019d mebbe be a man of useful mold,
A blacksmith or a congressman or else a farm-hand bold.
But now we think his chances for great things are mighty slim.
He\u2019s writin\u2019 poems; an\u2019 that\u2019ll be \u2018bout all from Uncle Jim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Evening Star, October 15, 1913. By Philander Johnson. My Uncle Jim has done \u2018most everything there is to do.He says life\u2019s not worth livin\u2019 when there isn\u2019t something newTo hold a man\u2019s attention. He has tamed a buckin\u2019 hossAnd drove in trottin\u2019 races without grumblin\u2019 at the loss.He has taken railroad journeys an\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-7569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569","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=7569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}