{"id":9654,"date":"2020-11-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2020-11-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T06:00:00","slug":"nothing-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/nothing-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1912-11-15\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Seattle Star, November 15, 1912<\/a><\/em>.\n \n\n There\u2019s many a man who kicks against\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The price of pork and steak,\n Who says that the cost of chalky milk\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Gives him a constant ache,\n Who howls when he buys a dozen eggs\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And roars a half an hour\n When buying a cake of laundry soap\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or half a sack of flour,\n Who threatens to cause someone\u2019s arrest\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And rails against the trust,\n And says that the cost of living soon\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Will make the nation bust\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 BUT\n Who\u2019ll blow a good five dollar bill\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For one of the latest shirts\n And pick out a swell three-dollar tie\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And make no sign it hurts.\n Who\u2019ll stand at a bar with twenty men\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And buy round after round\n In treating the crowd to foamy drinks\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And never make a sound!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> There\u2019s many a man who kicks against<br \/>\n     The price of pork and steak,<br \/>\n Who says that the cost of chalky milk<br \/>\n     Gives him a constant ache,<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654","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=9654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}