{"id":8676,"date":"2022-11-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2022-11-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T06:00:00","slug":"offensive-neatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/offensive-neatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Offensive Neatness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88064458\/1914-11-12\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\">The Voice of the People, November 12, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Flies may be neat and wipe their feet:<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I will admit all that.<br\/>They also take your pie or cake<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And use it as a mat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>These pesky pests, unbidden guests,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In wiping their soiled soles,<br\/>Can\u2019t use the floor; they much prefer<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Your flaky breakfast rolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The tribe of flies, it really tries,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It seems, to give offense.<br\/>It is not meet to be so neat<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;At other folks\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Voice of the People, November 12, 1914. Flies may be neat and wipe their feet:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I will admit all that.They also take your pie or cake&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And use it as a mat. These pesky pests, unbidden guests,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In wiping their soiled soles,Can\u2019t use the floor; they much prefer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Your flaky breakfast rolls. The tribe of flies, 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":[3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-voice-of-the-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","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=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}