{"id":9151,"date":"2023-01-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9151"},"modified":"2023-01-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T06:00:00","slug":"paying-the-fiddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/paying-the-fiddler\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying the Fiddler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1915-01-27\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, January 27, 1915<\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I remember way back in \u201984,<br\/>The folks was madder\u2019n ever before,<br\/>When they noticed first the increased expense,<br\/>And they have been hollerin\u2019 ever sence.<br\/>They holler till they\u2019re sick and sore and lame,<br\/>But they keep on payin\u2019 just the same.<br\/>They holler till they\u2019re sick and sore and shout<br\/>There ain\u2019t one thing they will do without.<br\/>For every family in this broad land<br\/>Is as good as the next one. Understand?<br\/>They caterwaller and they wipe their eyes,<br\/>But they don\u2019t seem willing to economize.<br\/>When one feller gits some jimcrack new,<br\/>The next feller\u2019s got to have one, too.<br\/>They all keep digging down in their jeans<br\/>And tryin\u2019 to live beyond their means.<br\/>If this goes on to the end of time,<br\/>The cost of living is going to climb,<br\/>Fer when you put on new-fangled frills,<br\/>You surely have got to pay the bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Topeka State Journal, January 27, 1915. By Roy K. Moulton. I remember way back in \u201984,The folks was madder\u2019n ever before,When they noticed first the increased expense,And they have been hollerin\u2019 ever sence.They holler till they\u2019re sick and sore and lame,But they keep on payin\u2019 just the same.They holler till they\u2019re sick and [&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-9151","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\/9151","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=9151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}