{"id":9640,"date":"2020-10-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2020-10-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T05:00:00","slug":"lucky-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lucky-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-10-17\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, October 17, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n My pa he handles popcorn balls,\n \u00a0 And he sells peanuts, too,\n And lots of other things like that\n \u00a0 That make you want to chew.\n And sometimes I can go along\n \u00a0 And help him wait on trade,\n Especially if it\u2019s a time\n \u00a0 He\u2019s selling lemonade.\n \n My pa he fills his basket up,\n \u00a0 And he goes everywhere.\n When other people have to pay\n \u00a0 He walks right in the fair.\n Sometimes he lets me go along\n \u00a0 The gatemen they just grin\n And say when pa says, \u201cThat\u2019s my kid,\u201d\n \u00a0 \u201cJust take him right on in.\u201d\n \n My pa he has a lot of friends\n \u00a0 For everywhere he goes\n It seems that every one he meets\n \u00a0 Is some one that he knows.\n They chat with him a little while\n \u00a0 And then most always say,\n \u201cI guess I\u2019ll take some peanuts or\n \u00a0 A ball of corn today.\u201d\n \n I\u2019m awful sorry for the kids\n \u00a0 Whose fathers work in banks\n Or blacksmith shops or offices\n \u00a0 Or where they fill the tanks.\n They never get to go along,\n \u00a0 They must feel mighty bad.\n But I can go most anywhere,\n \u00a0 Because I help my dad.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> My pa he handles popcorn balls,<br \/>\n   And he sells peanuts, too,<br \/>\n And lots of other things like that<br \/>\n   That make you want to chew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-9640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-duncan-m-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640","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=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}