{"id":7903,"date":"2022-01-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2022-01-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:00:00","slug":"a-dissenting-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-dissenting-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dissenting Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-01-25\/ed-1\/seq-21\/\"><em>Evening Star, January 25, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is talk of women votin\u2019 down to Pohick on the Crick.<br>The men folks all got up an\u2019 spoke in favor of it quick,<br>Exceptin\u2019 old Joe Struthers, who remarked that as fur him,<br>The benefits of such a plan seemed all remote an\u2019 slim.<br>He always had the time when an election day came \u2018round<br>To go to town an\u2019 tussle with the problems so profound.<br>But as fur Mrs. Struthers, it was quite a different case.<br>If she should quit, there wouldn\u2019t be no one to run the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said she took a day off once an\u2019 went to see her kin.<br>Joe jes\u2019 stood \u2018round not knowin\u2019 where an\u2019 how he should begin<br>To do the chores an\u2019 follow out the regular daily plan.<br>He couldn\u2019t git no help from questionin\u2019 the hired man.<br>The critters on the place, from chickens to the Jersey cow,<br>Seemed all upset an\u2019 pinin\u2019 an\u2019 inclined to raise a row.<br>Joe says fur women\u2019s rights in principle he\u2019ll always stick,<br>But it\u2019s mighty hard to spare \u2018em down to Pohick on the Crick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, January 25, 1914. By Philander Johnson. There is talk of women votin\u2019 down to Pohick on the Crick.The men folks all got up an\u2019 spoke in favor of it quick,Exceptin\u2019 old Joe Struthers, who remarked that as fur him,The benefits of such a plan seemed all remote an\u2019 slim.He always had [&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-7903","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\/7903","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=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}