{"id":9432,"date":"2023-07-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9432"},"modified":"2023-07-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:00:00","slug":"why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1915-07-05\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, July 5, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tramp going across a field was accosted by the owner.<br>\u201cYou\u2019ll have to get out of here.\u201d<br>\u201cWhy?\u201d<br>\u201cBecause it\u2019s posted.\u201d<br>\u201cWho posted it?\u201d<br>\u201cI did.\u201d<br>\u201cWhat right have you to post it?\u201d<br>\u201cBecause it\u2019s mine.\u201d<br>\u201cWhere did you get it?\u201d<br>\u201cI inherited it from my father.\u201d<br>\u201cWell, where did he get it?\u201d<br>\u201cHe inherited it from his father.\u201d<br>\u201cHm! Where did he get it?\u201d<br>\u201cHe inherited it from his father.\u201d<br>\u201cUm hm! And where did he get it?\u201d<br>\u201cHe fought for it.\u201d<br>The tramp took off his coat.<br>\u201cWell,\u201d he said, \u201cI\u2019ll fight you for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, July 5, 1915. A tramp going across a field was accosted by the owner.\u201cYou\u2019ll have to get out of here.\u201d\u201cWhy?\u201d\u201cBecause it\u2019s posted.\u201d\u201cWho posted it?\u201d\u201cI did.\u201d\u201cWhat right have you to post it?\u201d\u201cBecause it\u2019s mine.\u201d\u201cWhere did you get it?\u201d\u201cI inherited it from my father.\u201d\u201cWell, where did he get it?\u201d\u201cHe inherited it from [&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-9432","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\/9432","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=9432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}