{"id":9442,"date":"2023-07-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9442"},"modified":"2023-07-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:00:00","slug":"truths-of-historyno-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/truths-of-historyno-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Truths of History\u2014No. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045389\/1915-07-15\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Richmond Times Dispatch, July 15, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>When barons bold at Runnymede<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Laid down the law to England\u2019s King,<br\/>The Magna Charta there decreed<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was not meant liberty to bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the barons spread this tale,<br\/>But they did that to cop the kale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The fact is barons in that day<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Had found their purses waxing slim,<br\/>And made the King agree to pay<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Whene\u2019er they turned a trick for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The other rules they did indite<br\/>Were meant to make the thing sound right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Richmond Times Dispatch, July 15, 1915. When barons bold at Runnymede&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Laid down the law to England\u2019s King,The Magna Charta there decreed&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was not meant liberty to bring. Of course, the barons spread this tale,But they did that to cop the kale. The fact is barons in that day&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Had found their purses waxing slim,And made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-richmond-times-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442","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=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}