{"id":7975,"date":"2022-02-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7975"},"modified":"2022-02-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T06:00:00","slug":"the-better-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-better-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Better Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045433\/1914-02-26\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Washington Herald, February 26, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By John Kendrick Bangs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a phrase in mind today<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; So sharp I really can\u2019t convey it.<br>I laughed and laughed for hours away<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; To think how sorely \u2018twould dismay<br>My foe, and then I\u2019m glad to say<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Decided that I wouldn\u2019t say it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Washington Herald, February 26, 1914. By John Kendrick Bangs. I had a phrase in mind today&nbsp; &nbsp; So sharp I really can\u2019t convey it.I laughed and laughed for hours away&nbsp; &nbsp; To think how sorely \u2018twould dismayMy foe, and then I\u2019m glad to say&nbsp; &nbsp; Decided that I wouldn\u2019t say it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-7975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-herald","tag-john-kendrick-bangs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975","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=7975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}