{"id":8938,"date":"2022-12-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8938"},"modified":"2022-12-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T06:00:00","slug":"the-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1914-12-18\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, December 18, 1914<\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>He seeks no rabbits. They are too tame.<br\/>He\u2019s going out for bigger game,<br\/>A thing he has wished to do<br\/>E\u2019er since he was a barefoot boy.<br\/>He\u2019s spent most all his hard earned dough,<br\/>More than he could afford to blow<br\/>Because he wants to go in style<br\/>And do the thing up simply right.<br\/>There\u2019s nothing that he hasn\u2019t bought<br\/>By way of fixin\u2019 that he ought.<br\/>He\u2019s all fussed up in hunting clothes<br\/>Of loud design and out of sight.<br\/>A week goes by. They get no word,<br\/>And start to wonder what\u2019s occurred.<br\/>Until one day a telegram<br\/>Fills them with nervous dread and fear.<br\/>\u2019Tis short but very eloquent<br\/>And everyone knows what is meant:<br\/>\u201cMistaken for a deer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Topeka State Journal, December 18, 1914. By Roy K. Moulton. He seeks no rabbits. They are too tame.He\u2019s going out for bigger game,A thing he has wished to doE\u2019er since he was a barefoot boy.He\u2019s spent most all his hard earned dough,More than he could afford to blowBecause he wants to go in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-8938","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\/8938","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=8938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}