{"id":7621,"date":"2021-11-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2021-11-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T05:00:00","slug":"the-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Detroit Times, November 6, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s \u201cHow do you do\u201d to William,
    But simply \u201cHello!\u201d to Bill.
For William has stocks in the safety box,
    While the riches of Bill are nil;
And William has might and power
    Which people are wary of,
So they smile and bow to William now,
    But penniless Bill they love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s \u201cHow do you do?\u201d to William,
    With something of fear and awe,
When we\u2019re face to face in the market place,
    Where gold is the chiefest law,
But the children and men and women,
    They turn with right good will
From work or play when he comes their way
    And holler \u201cHello\u201d to Bill!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s \u201cHow do you do?\u201d to William,
    With the thought of his cash in view;
While not a stamp has Bill, the scamp!
    We like him because\u2014we do!
Now had you your choice of greetings
    Which one would meet your will?
The \u201cHow Do You Do?\u201d for William
    Or the simple \u201cHello!\u201d for Bill?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Detroit Times, November 6, 1913. By Berton Braley. It\u2019s \u201cHow do you do\u201d to William,    But simply \u201cHello!\u201d to Bill.For William has stocks in the safety box,    While the riches of Bill are nil;And William has might and power    Which people are wary of,So they smile and bow to William […]<\/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-7621","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\/7621","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=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}