{"id":8456,"date":"2022-09-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2022-09-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T05:00:00","slug":"the-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1914-09-17\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Sun, September 17, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFarewell, false world,\u201d he wildly cries<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And registers despair.<br\/>The frightened damsel vainly tries<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To grab him by the hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Into the rushing tide he flops<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite the maiden\u2019s squeal.<br\/>The operator never stops<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The progress of his reel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou did it like a pair of clams,\u201d<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The chief yells from the shore.<br\/>\u201cSome action to it now, you hams!<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Go over it once more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, September 17, 1914. \u201cFarewell, false world,\u201d he wildly cries&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And registers despair.The frightened damsel vainly tries&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To grab him by the hair. Into the rushing tide he flops&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite the maiden\u2019s squeal.The operator never stops&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The progress of his reel. \u201cYou did it like a pair of clams,\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The chief yells from the shore.\u201cSome action to it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","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=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}