{"id":8821,"date":"2022-11-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8821"},"modified":"2022-11-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"the-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From The Topeka State Journal, November 30, 1914<\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Got a letter yesterday    From my cousin Jim.Guess it\u2019s been almost a year    Since I\u2019ve heard from him.Says he hopes I\u2019m prosperin\u2019,    For he\u2019s fond of me;Hopes I\u2019ll drop the old-time grudge    An\u2019 be friends you see.Takes occasion to remark,    Incidental like,New kid at this house is named    In my honor, Ike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Uncle Pete has written me,    Quite a letter, too;Hopes my health is on the gain,    Then hands me a fewHot ones on his love for me;    Says it is intense,Like to see me if he could,    Barrin\u2019 the expense.To\u2019ard the close he manages    To slip in a lineThat the suit I gin him once    Lasted three years, fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Cousin Hank and Brother Bill    Both have written home,Tellin\u2019 us about their trip,    Where they\u2019re apt to roam.They\u2019ve been gone eleven months,    Prospectin\u2019 out west;First we\u2019ve heard from them is now;    Said they\u2019d done their bestBut their luck seemed kinder poor,    They\u2019re homesick, almost.\u2018Long about the twenty-fifth    They\u2019ll reach Painted Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Letters comin\u2019 all the time,    Mailmen, as a rule,Say I must be runnin\u2019 some    Correspondence school.Sisters, uncles, cousins, aunts,    Long forgotten friends,Sending picture postal cards    Just to make amends.But the end of this rush will    Come soon, never fear.Reason for it all is this:    Christmas time is near.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Topeka State Journal, November 30, 1914. By Roy K. Moulton. Got a letter yesterday    From my cousin Jim.Guess it\u2019s been almost a year    Since I\u2019ve heard from him.Says he hopes I\u2019m prosperin\u2019,    For he\u2019s fond of me;Hopes I\u2019ll drop the old-time grudge    An\u2019 be friends you see.Takes occasion to remark,    Incidental like,New kid at this house is named    In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-8821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821","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=8821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}