{"id":9422,"date":"2023-06-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9422"},"modified":"2023-06-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:00:00","slug":"a-first-class-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-first-class-substitute\/","title":{"rendered":"A First Class Substitute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1915-06-27\/ed-1\/seq-26\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, June 27, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Now, riches don\u2019t make happiness,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A very ancient saw;<br\/>And yet, a maid who\u2019s in distress<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Quite often goes to law<br\/>And asks enormous damages<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To heal a broken heart,<br\/>And when her lawyer makes his pleas<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The jury takes her part,<br\/>So that, in just a little while,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Her breach of promise suit<br\/>Extracts the coin to live in style<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From one who proved a \u201cbrute.\u201d<br\/>And while it mayn\u2019t be happiness<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That makes her features glow,<br\/>Whate\u2019er it is, it doth express<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A joyous mood, I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, June 27, 1915. Now, riches don\u2019t make happiness,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A very ancient saw;And yet, a maid who\u2019s in distress&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Quite often goes to lawAnd asks enormous damages&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To heal a broken heart,And when her lawyer makes his pleas&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The jury takes her part,So that, in just a little while,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Her breach of promise suitExtracts the coin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422","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=9422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}