{"id":9638,"date":"2023-10-02T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/tons-of-it\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:10:46","slug":"tons-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/tons-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tons of It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045389\/1915-10-03\/ed-1\/seq-20\/\">Richmond Times Dispatch, October 3, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Five hundred million dollars\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It seems an awful lot<br\/>That old man Mars now collars<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To spend on shell and shot.<br\/>And yet \u2019tis forked up gladly<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And not a soul repents,<br\/>While poor folks struggle madly<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To raise five hundred cents.<br\/>It certainly seems funny,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Although well understood,<br\/>That there is always money<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For things that do no good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Richmond Times Dispatch, October 3, 1915. Five hundred million dollars\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It seems an awful lotThat old man Mars now collars&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To spend on shell and shot.And yet \u2019tis forked up gladly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And not a soul repents,While poor folks struggle madly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To raise five hundred cents.It certainly seems funny,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Although well understood,That there is always money&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For things that do [&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-9638","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\/9638","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=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}