{"id":9213,"date":"2023-03-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9213"},"modified":"2023-03-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T06:00:00","slug":"neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-03-08\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, March 8, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>When you find yourself a-pinin\u2019<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fur a slow, sunshiny day,<br\/>An\u2019 a chance to throw a line in<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where the shadows are at play,<br\/>You forget ambitious dreamin\u2019<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An\u2019 the hard an\u2019 selfish wish;<br\/>All the plannin\u2019 an\u2019 the schemin\u2019<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Make no difference to the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>They don\u2019t ask you how you voted,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When they give your line a look.<br\/>Though you\u2019re humble and unnoted,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That won\u2019t keep \u2018em from the hook.<br\/>An\u2019 the deal is square you\u2019re gettin\u2019<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where the waters gently swish.<br\/>All the argument an\u2019 frettin\u2019<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Make no difference to the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, March 8, 1915. By Philander Johnson. When you find yourself a-pinin\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fur a slow, sunshiny day,An\u2019 a chance to throw a line in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where the shadows are at play,You forget ambitious dreamin\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An\u2019 the hard an\u2019 selfish wish;All the plannin\u2019 an\u2019 the schemin\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Make no difference to the fish. They don\u2019t ask you how you [&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-9213","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\/9213","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=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}