{"id":9644,"date":"2020-10-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2020-10-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T05:00:00","slug":"the-plea-of-the-ordinary-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-plea-of-the-ordinary-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plea of the Ordinary Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1912-10-21\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Seattle Star, October 21, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n I feel I am needing a change in my reading;\n \u00a0 I weary of tales which describe\n The poor east side tailor who lives in his squalor\n \u00a0 Amid all the rest of his tribe;\n I also am weary of stories more cheery\n \u00a0 Which chiefly\u2014yes, wholly\u2014concern\n The beautiful heiress with gowns made in Paris\n \u00a0 And the youth who has money to burn.\n \n I long for narrations of people whose stations\n \u00a0 Are not so extreme either way.\n The people I meet in the office and street in\n \u00a0 The course of my business and play;\n I don\u2019t care for stories of wealth and its glories\n \u00a0 Nor tales of acute misery;\n I long in my fiction to find the depiction\n \u00a0 Of commonplace people\u2014like me!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I feel I am needing a change in my reading;<br \/>\n   I weary of tales which describe<br \/>\n The poor east side tailor who lives in his squalor<br \/>\n   Amid all the rest of his tribe;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-9644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644","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=9644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}