{"id":8234,"date":"2022-05-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2022-05-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T05:00:00","slug":"it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/it\/","title":{"rendered":"It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Birmingham Age Herald, May 26, 1914<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say that now we\u2019ve a third sex
    In woman\u2019s form \u2019tis set
But it has male proclivities
    E\u2019en to the cigarette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It smokes, it drinks, it lives in flats
    Rides in taxis alone;
It saws a bone, a sermon spouts
    And quotes Coke or Blackstone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They imitate the neuter bee,
    Don\u2019t care a cuss for kids;
They like to work just as a mule;
    In fact they are hybrids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when we up our grammars take
    And He, She, It we see,
We know that It is nature\u2019s freak;
    She\u2019s It and It is she.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Birmingham Age Herald, May 26, 1914. They say that now we\u2019ve a third sex    In woman\u2019s form \u2019tis setBut it has male proclivities    E\u2019en to the cigarette. It smokes, it drinks, it lives in flats    Rides in taxis alone;It saws a bone, a sermon spouts    And quotes Coke or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","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=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}