{"id":7781,"date":"2021-12-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7781"},"modified":"2021-12-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T06:00:00","slug":"taboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/taboo\/","title":{"rendered":"Taboo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

You mustn\u2019t make fun of the Irish,
    You mustn\u2019t get fresh with the Jew,
There\u2019s always a fuss if you jest at the Russ,
    And to jape at the Dutch is taboo.
You must\u2019t play jokes on the English,
    For they are a haughty clan\u2014
But here is a mutt who\u2019s a good-natured butt,
    The Patient Amer-i-can!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hands off the polyglot races;
    You mustn\u2019t offend them at all,
For they fly in a rage when burlesqued on the stage
    And threaten to burn down the hall.
So dare not to laugh at the German,
    The Swede or I-tal-i-an,
But laugh all you like at this good-natured Ike,
    The Patient Amer-i-can!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He doesn\u2019t get choked up with choler,
    But cheerfully shells out his pelf
To pay for some play where they prove him a jay
    And bid him to laugh at himself.
He\u2019d joke at his grave if fate let him,
    And yet\u2014if you\u2019re needing a man\u2014
A regular friend who will stick to the end,
    You try the Amer-i-can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Tacoma Times, December 1, 1913. By Berton Braley. You mustn\u2019t make fun of the Irish,    You mustn\u2019t get fresh with the Jew,There\u2019s always a fuss if you jest at the Russ,    And to jape at the Dutch is taboo.You must\u2019t play jokes on the English,    For they are a haughty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781","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=7781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}