{"id":7980,"date":"2022-02-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7980"},"modified":"2022-02-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T06:00:00","slug":"a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1914-02-28\/ed-1\/seq-14\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, February 28, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night as I lay sleeping,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I had a dream so fair;<br>Methought I owned a hundred banks,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; With money everywhere.<br>My home was on Fifth Avenue,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; My servants all content;<br>It never strained my purse a bit<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; To pay for clothes or rent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I owned all sorts of motor cars,<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 A nifty yacht and plane;<br>I rode where\u2019er I pleased on earth<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 And o\u2019er the bounding main,<br>And in the midst of all my joy<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 I got an awful shock;<br>My banks were closed by order of<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 My old alarum clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Topeka State Journal, February 28, 1914. By Roy K. Moulton. Last night as I lay sleeping,&nbsp; &nbsp; I had a dream so fair;Methought I owned a hundred banks,&nbsp; &nbsp; With money everywhere.My home was on Fifth Avenue,&nbsp; &nbsp; My servants all content;It never strained my purse a bit&nbsp; &nbsp; To pay for clothes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-7980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980","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=7980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}