{"id":8158,"date":"2022-05-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2022-05-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T05:00:00","slug":"cleon-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/cleon-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleon and I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Rock Island Argus, May 5, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cleon hath four limousines,
    Ne\u2019er a one have I;
Cleon fares to foreign scenes,
    Here at home stay I;
Cleon lives where servants hurry
    And the walls are high;
Cleon oft has cause to worry,
    So, alas, have I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty suits of clothes has he,
    Only one have I;
He makes money easily,
    By hard working I;
In his glass the old wine bubbles,
    Cleon likes it \u201cdry\u201d;
Cleon frequently has troubles,
    Ah, well, so do I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cleon is a millionaire,
    I work, wet or dry;
Cleon\u2019s losing all his hair,
    Little hair have I;
Cleon oft has indigestion,
    So, indeed, have I;
What\u2019s the difference, you question?
    This is my reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cleon\u2019s daughter has eloped
    And his son flies high;
Hopes that Cleon fondly hoped
    Have been doomed to die;
Cleon sits alone at night,
    In his breast a sigh;
My kids stay at home and fight\u2014
    Six of them have I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rock Island Argus, May 5, 1914. By Henry Howland. Cleon hath four limousines,    Ne\u2019er a one have I;Cleon fares to foreign scenes,    Here at home stay I;Cleon lives where servants hurry    And the walls are high;Cleon oft has cause to worry,    So, alas, have I. Twenty suits of clothes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158","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=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}