{"id":7889,"date":"2022-01-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2022-01-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:00:00","slug":"the-direct-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-direct-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Direct Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-01-19\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, January 19, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We told Erastus Pinkley \u2018bout de future punishment;<br>About de heat he\u2019d find unless he changed de way he went,<br>But \u2018Rastus works outdoors all day, a-drivin\u2019 of a cart,<br>An\u2019 we simply couldn\u2019t make him take de hot-wave talk to heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An\u2019 den we told him dat de place whur sinners has to go<br>Is whur you\u2019s nearly freezin\u2019 while you has to shovel snow,<br>Where icicles is handed out insted o\u2019 coal an\u2019 wood\u2014<br>An\u2019 we notice now dat \u2018Rastus is a-tryin\u2019 to be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, January 19, 1914. By Philander Johnson. We told Erastus Pinkley \u2018bout de future punishment;About de heat he\u2019d find unless he changed de way he went,But \u2018Rastus works outdoors all day, a-drivin\u2019 of a cart,An\u2019 we simply couldn\u2019t make him take de hot-wave talk to heart. An\u2019 den we told him dat [&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-7889","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\/7889","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=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}