{"id":8819,"date":"2022-11-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2022-11-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T06:00:00","slug":"a-little-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-little-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-11-29\/ed-1\/seq-28\/\">Evening Star, November 29, 1914<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A little nonsense now and then<br\/>Is relished by the best of men;<br\/>But so is ice cream, cake and pie.<br\/>\u2019Tis surely a mistake to try<br\/>To make a meal of stuff that\u2019s sweet,<br\/>Avoiding simple bread and meat.<br\/>And when a statesman is inclined<br\/>To dish up for the public mind<br\/>A mental bill of fare that\u2019s made<br\/>Of syrup, fluff and marmalade,<br\/>The public, weary though polite,<br\/>Complains of loss of appetite<br\/>And turns away, with yearning fraught<br\/>For simple, homemade food for thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, November 29, 1914. By Philander Johnson. A little nonsense now and thenIs relished by the best of men;But so is ice cream, cake and pie.\u2019Tis surely a mistake to tryTo make a meal of stuff that\u2019s sweet,Avoiding simple bread and meat.And when a statesman is inclinedTo dish up for the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-8819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819","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=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}