{"id":8162,"date":"2022-05-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8162"},"modified":"2022-05-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T05:00:00","slug":"tables-turned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/tables-turned\/","title":{"rendered":"Tables Turned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-05-07\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, May 7, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched the gently flowing stream<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Where silver ripples stray.<br>Beneath the water\u2019s flash and gleam<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I knew the fish would play.<br>I thought of many a prize to make<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; A rare and tempting dish.<br>I sat and dreamed, though half awake,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; That I was stringin\u2019 fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked and saw the finny tribe<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Down in the water clear.<br>Swift circles they would there describe<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And to my hook draw near.<br>I made full many a fervent wish,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; They romped in graceful glee.<br>I dreamed that I was stringin\u2019 fish.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The fish were stringin\u2019 me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, May 7, 1914. By Philander Johnson. I watched the gently flowing stream&nbsp; &nbsp; Where silver ripples stray.Beneath the water\u2019s flash and gleam&nbsp; &nbsp; I knew the fish would play.I thought of many a prize to make&nbsp; &nbsp; A rare and tempting dish.I sat and dreamed, though half awake,&nbsp; &nbsp; That I [&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-8162","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\/8162","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=8162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}