{"id":8424,"date":"2022-08-31T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8424"},"modified":"2022-08-31T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:00:00","slug":"speculators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/speculators\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038411\/1914-08-31\/ed-1\/seq-11\/\">Harrisburg Telegraph, August 31, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019d nothing but his little job<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And she her rosy cheek,<br\/>But love still lives on bread and cheese<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And kisses twice a week;<br\/>And so the speculators went<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To get the license out\u2014<br\/>And what\u2019s the use to try to preach<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When the wind of love\u2019s about!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019d nothing but his manly will<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And she her gentle grace;<br\/>But, oh, the world and all to him<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was in her glowing face;<br\/>And so these speculators took<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The problem all must fight\u2014<br\/>And what\u2019s the use to fret and scold<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When all comes out so right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019d nothing but his youth and gleam<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And she her laughing eyes;<br\/>But they were in the vale of dreams<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beneath the singing skies;<br\/>And so these speculators chose<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Their nest as others do\u2014<br\/>And what\u2019s the use to raise a fuss<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When they only did like you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Harrisburg Telegraph, August 31, 1914. He\u2019d nothing but his little job&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And she her rosy cheek,But love still lives on bread and cheese&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And kisses twice a week;And so the speculators went&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To get the license out\u2014And what\u2019s the use to try to preach&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When the wind of love\u2019s about! He\u2019d nothing but his manly will&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrisburg-telegraph","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424","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=8424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}