{"id":9441,"date":"2023-07-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9441"},"modified":"2023-07-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:00:00","slug":"imaginary-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/imaginary-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-07-14\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, July 14, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>If all the men who talk of fish<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Were fishermen for sure,<br\/>If fact were equal to the wish<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That stoutly doth endure,<br\/>If all the men who sit and write<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of fish, in verse so fine,<br\/>Had sought the waters that invite<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The patient hook and line,<br\/>If all the tackle that is made<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And every year turned loose<br\/>\u2018Mongst sporting goods to be displayed,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Were put to active use,<br\/>The situation could be told<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In language quite succinct:<br\/>The fishing yarns would all be old;<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The fish would be extinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, July 14, 1915. By Philander Johnson. If all the men who talk of fish&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Were fishermen for sure,If fact were equal to the wish&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That stoutly doth endure,If all the men who sit and write&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of fish, in verse so fine,Had sought the waters that invite&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The patient hook and line,If all the tackle that [&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-9441","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\/9441","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=9441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}