{"id":7615,"date":"2021-11-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2021-11-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:00:00","slug":"so-long-willie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/so-long-willie\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Willie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038615\/1913-11-03\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Times Dispatch, November 3, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surgeons rub their hands in glee and sharpen up their saws,<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 And Willie\u2019s mother breathes a hopeless sigh.<br>Her heart of hearts is grieving and the teardrops fall because<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s time to bid her Willie boy goodbye.<br>He is a husky youngster and was never sick a day,<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 But one can never tell what will befall.<br>He may be brought back to her in a basket or he may<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 Be brought back to her never more at all.<br>You cannot blame the lady for her heart throbs and her fears,<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 However vain and needless they may seem,<br>For little Willie\u2019s chosen for a sad fate it appears;<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 He has been picked for halfback on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Times Dispatch, November 3, 1913. By Roy K. Moulton. The surgeons rub their hands in glee and sharpen up their saws,\u00a0 \u00a0 And Willie\u2019s mother breathes a hopeless sigh.Her heart of hearts is grieving and the teardrops fall because\u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s time to bid her Willie boy goodbye.He is a husky youngster and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-7615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-times-dispatch","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615","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=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}