{"id":9359,"date":"2023-06-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9359"},"modified":"2023-06-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:00:00","slug":"yes-it-surely-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/yes-it-surely-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It Surely Does"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1915-06-08\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, June 8, 1915<\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Why did those old Egyptian kings<br\/>Build pyramids and other things?<br\/>Why did they proudly carve or paint<br\/>An obelisk with figures quaint?<br\/>Why did some Roman monarch raise<br\/>A circus in those good old days?<br\/>Or keep a poet under hire<br\/>To sound a complimentary lyre?<br\/>Why did old Caesar late at night<br\/>Sit up describing every fight?<br\/>Or Alexander make that bluff<br\/>And say, \u201cThe world\u2019s not big enough?\u201d<br\/>To us who view the modern game<br\/>And see how wealth is wrung from fame,<br\/>The answer need not cause surprise:<br\/>It always pays to advertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Topeka State Journal, June 8, 1915. By Roy K. Moulton. Why did those old Egyptian kingsBuild pyramids and other things?Why did they proudly carve or paintAn obelisk with figures quaint?Why did some Roman monarch raiseA circus in those good old days?Or keep a poet under hireTo sound a complimentary lyre?Why did old Caesar [&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-9359","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\/9359","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=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}