{"id":9114,"date":"2023-01-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9114"},"modified":"2023-01-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:00:00","slug":"a-sad-story-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-sad-story-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Story of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1915-01-13\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, January 13, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A member of the chorus<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who visited a seer<br\/>Was told that in six months she would<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Be married to a peer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Such talk should be discounted,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It leads young girls astray;<br\/>This maiden bought a lot of things<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For which she could not pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>And when she\u2019d hoped to marry<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Her luck was very poor,<br\/>For she was doing one-night stands<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She\u2019d never done before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>And no one said, \u201cMy lady,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His lordship waits below.\u201d<br\/>Instead she warbled ragtime songs<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And critics panned the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, January 13, 1915. A member of the chorus&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who visited a seerWas told that in six months she would&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Be married to a peer. Such talk should be discounted,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It leads young girls astray;This maiden bought a lot of things&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For which she could not pay. And when she\u2019d hoped to marry&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Her luck was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114","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=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}