{"id":9144,"date":"2023-01-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2023-01-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T06:00:00","slug":"an-employment-seeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/an-employment-seeker\/","title":{"rendered":"An Employment Seeker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-01-21\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, January 21, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I long to serve my native land<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With efforts intellectual.<br\/>I seek to lend a helping hand<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To struggles ineffectual.<br\/>I will appeal to wealth and ease<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And likewise to the gallery.<br\/>But first one question, if you please;<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Let\u2019s talk about the salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I fain would educate mankind<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To standards altitudinous.<br\/>The manners we must leave behind<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That are considered rude in us.<br\/>This world we\u2019ll turn into a school,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Likewise a sanitarium;<br\/>But, touching on the golden rule,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What is the honorarium?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, January 21, 1915. By Philander Johnson. I long to serve my native land&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With efforts intellectual.I seek to lend a helping hand&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To struggles ineffectual.I will appeal to wealth and ease&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And likewise to the gallery.But first one question, if you please;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Let\u2019s talk about the salary. I fain would educate mankind&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To standards altitudinous.The manners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-9144","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\/9144","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=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}