{"id":7932,"date":"2022-02-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2022-02-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T06:00:00","slug":"a-notable-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-notable-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"A Notable Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-02-07\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, February 7, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a feller gets elected, everything is gay and bright;<br>Your friends will gather \u2018round you and declare that you\u2019re all right;<br>Your words will be repeated, as they shake you by the hand,<br>Assuring you your future will be something good and grand.<br>Those friends appear so numerous that, as you look them o\u2019er,<br>You wonder why you haven\u2019t seen a lot of them before.<br>And each looks rather wistful as he joins the cheers so free<br>And sings his special version of \u201cThen You\u2019ll Remember Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as the years go rolling by, how many of them say,<br>\u201cI wonder what he did to get an office, anyway!\u201d<br>When you\u2019ve done your best to please them, you will hear that tapping sound,<br>Which tells you that a tribe of Hammer Boys is prowling \u2018round.<br>You think about the beautiful bouquets they used to throw,<br>And sigh, at realizing that they withered long ago.<br>For the meetings and the greetings show a very different style<br>When a feller has been holding public office for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, February 7, 1914. By Philander Johnson. When a feller gets elected, everything is gay and bright;Your friends will gather \u2018round you and declare that you\u2019re all right;Your words will be repeated, as they shake you by the hand,Assuring you your future will be something good and grand.Those friends appear so numerous [&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-7932","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\/7932","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=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}