{"id":9363,"date":"2023-06-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2023-06-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T05:00:00","slug":"off-to-the-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/off-to-the-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to the Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-06-12\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, June 12, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s me fur the bank,\u201d said Plodding Pete,<br\/>\u201cThe bank whose solidity can\u2019t be beat\u2014<br\/>The bank o\u2019 the stream that reflects the glint<br\/>Of the golden coin from the sunshine mint,<br\/>Where the jewels don\u2019t need a safety box,<br\/>But are tossed where the water hits the rocks<br\/>Into the air with a sparkle gay,<br\/>With plenty to spare and some more next day.<br\/>Oh, there\u2019s never a thought of gain or loss<br\/>As you sit on a cushion built of moss.<br\/>The stately pillars are trees that grow<br\/>With a grace that your builders may never know.<br\/>There I may draw from the mighty store<br\/>All that I need an\u2019 come back fur more<br\/>With a welcome endurin\u2019 an\u2019 complete;<br\/>So it\u2019s me fur the bank,\u201d said Plodding Pete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, June 12, 1915. By Philander Johnson. \u201cIt\u2019s me fur the bank,\u201d said Plodding Pete,\u201cThe bank whose solidity can\u2019t be beat\u2014The bank o\u2019 the stream that reflects the glintOf the golden coin from the sunshine mint,Where the jewels don\u2019t need a safety box,But are tossed where the water hits the rocksInto the [&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-9363","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\/9363","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=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}