{"id":7728,"date":"2021-11-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2021-11-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T06:00:00","slug":"lines-to-the-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lines-to-the-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines to the Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-11-29\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Evening Star, November 29, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, say not so! Oh, say not so!<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Wound not a weary heart!<br>Do not regard us as your foe<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And say that we must part.<br>Oh, modify that angry look<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; While we express regret.<br>You are a most accomplished cook<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And cooks are hard to get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, speak not thus! Oh, speak not thus!<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Pray set that suit case down!<br>If you\u2019ll consent to cook for us,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; No one shall chide or frown.<br>Our casual comments we shall quit.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; No fault we\u2019ll find with you,<br>For as a cook you are a hit<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And cooks are very few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, November 29, 1913. By Philander Johnson. Oh, say not so! Oh, say not so!&nbsp; &nbsp; Wound not a weary heart!Do not regard us as your foe&nbsp; &nbsp; And say that we must part.Oh, modify that angry look&nbsp; &nbsp; While we express regret.You are a most accomplished cook&nbsp; &nbsp; And cooks are [&hellip;]<\/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-7728","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\/7728","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=7728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}