{"id":9648,"date":"2020-10-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2020-10-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T05:00:00","slug":"evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1912-10-25\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, October 25, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n Men used to laugh at telephones,\n \u00a0 And called them idle toys.\n They railed in rude sarcastic tones\n \u00a0 At things the world employs\n To meet its constant needs today\n \u00a0 Yet nature does not change.\n We still salute with laughter gay\n \u00a0 Each proposition strange.\n \n They laughed to hear the world was round;\n \u00a0 They laughed at talk of steam;\n The airship once the public found\n \u00a0 A vastly humorous dream.\n So as we glance about the earth,\n \u00a0 Where marvels rise anew,\n We find the things of greatest worth\n \u00a0 Are jokes that have come true.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Men used to laugh at telephones,<br \/>\n   And called them idle toys.<br \/>\n They railed in rude sarcastic tones<br \/>\n   At things the world employs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248,275],"class_list":["post-9648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson","tag-shooting-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648","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=9648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}