{"id":7851,"date":"2022-01-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7851"},"modified":"2022-01-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T06:00:00","slug":"an-unkind-burglar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/an-unkind-burglar\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unkind Burglar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Topeka State Journal, January 2, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A burglar came to my house,
I did not say a word,
I did not hoot,
I did not shoot
To let him know I heard.
I let him search my mansion,
I cuddled up in bed,
Pretended sleep,
I did not peep,
But let him think me dead.
I knew what he was after:
The key to my garage.
He found it, too.
He would, I knew,
And then I saw him dodge
Out of the door right quickly,
I followed him that far.
He looked around,
Surveyed the ground,
And then he stole my car.
I smiled and laughed and cackled
Until I thought I\u2019d croak,
To see a bold
Bad burglar sold\u2014
\u2019Twas a delicious joke.
I went back to my slumbers
As happy as could be.
I\u2019d lost my car
Ho-ho, har-har,
I\u2019d saved some dough, maybe.
But soon I was awakened
Familiar with the sound,
The same old clang,
The same old bang,
The same old grind and pound.
He\u2019d driven it ten minutes.
That guy gives me a pain.
It made such a fuss
The ornery cuss
Had brought it back again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Topeka State Journal, January 2, 1914. By Roy K. Moulton. A burglar came to my house,I did not say a word,I did not hoot,I did not shootTo let him know I heard.I let him search my mansion,I cuddled up in bed,Pretended sleep,I did not peep,But let him think me dead.I knew what he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-7851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851","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=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}