{"id":7899,"date":"2022-01-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7899"},"modified":"2022-01-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T06:00:00","slug":"how-it-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/how-it-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"How It Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Detroit Times, January 23, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I go to the bank and I draw a check
    And think I have money to last awhile,
But my hopes all crash in a total wreck
    As money melts in the swiftest style,
For somebody borrows a yen or two
    And somebody comes with last year\u2019s bill,
Or my clothes wear out or the rent comes due
    And leaves me nary a single mill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When somebody pays for the work I\u2019ve done
    I grin and chuckle with soul care-free,
\u201cWell, now I\u2019ll certainly have some fun\u2014\u201c
    But somebody comes with a C. O. D.;
Or if a saving account I crave
    And plan on watching the roll grow fat,
The whole amount that I meant to save
    Must pay insurance\u2014or things like that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re always waiting to grab my roll;
    I never manage to get ahead;
I\u2019m either paying for this year\u2019s coal
    Or last year\u2019s horse\u2014which is cold and dead;
Coin never lasts as I thought it would,
    It always goes at the least excuse;
It never does me a bit of good;
    I try to save it\u2014but what\u2019s the use!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Detroit Times, January 23, 1914. By Berton Braley. I go to the bank and I draw a check    And think I have money to last awhile,But my hopes all crash in a total wreck    As money melts in the swiftest style,For somebody borrows a yen or two    And somebody comes […]<\/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-7899","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\/7899","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=7899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}