{"id":8176,"date":"2022-05-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2022-05-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T05:00:00","slug":"it-cant-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/it-cant-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"It Can\u2019t Be Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038411\/1914-05-14\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\"><em>Harrisburg Telegraph, May 14, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Wing Dinger.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The editor is yelling<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; For my poem to-day,<br>And as it is nine thirty<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I\u2019ll write it right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now let me see, what subject<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Will likely bring a smile.<br>I have it\u2014but excuse me<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; For just a little while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone came in to see me<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; On business, that was why<br>I asked you to excuse me,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And now to write I\u2019ll try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve got to do some hustling,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Because it\u2019s half past ten.<br>Well, here goes\u2014but pray pardon,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; There is my phone again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have just two more minutes<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; To write this verse of fun,<br>And I\u2019ve forgot my subject\u2014<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; By jove, it can\u2019t be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Harrisburg Telegraph, May 14, 1914. By Wing Dinger. The editor is yelling&nbsp; &nbsp; For my poem to-day,And as it is nine thirty&nbsp; &nbsp; I\u2019ll write it right away. Now let me see, what subject&nbsp; &nbsp; Will likely bring a smile.I have it\u2014but excuse me&nbsp; &nbsp; For just a little while. Someone came in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,3],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrisburg-telegraph","category-newspapers","tag-wing-dinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","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=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}