{"id":9658,"date":"2020-12-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2020-12-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T01:00:00","slug":"a-small-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-small-order\/","title":{"rendered":"A Small Order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1912-12-21\/ed-1\/seq-14\/\">The Topeka State Journal, December 21, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n This is all that I expect\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Santa Claus to bring to me:\n One large boat\u2014my old one\u2019s wrecked;\n &nbsp; &nbsp; One large, lovely Christmas tree;\n Then I need a larger drum,\n That says \u201cboom\u201d instead of \u201ctum\u201d;\n And I want a nice long whip\n That will make our tomcat skip;\n Then I hope to get a ball\n That will dent the hardest wall,\n And a bat that will not split\n Every time that it is hit;\n Next I\u2019d choose a pair of skates\n Just as nice as sister Kate\u2019s,\n And a bright large monoplane\n That will carry rag-doll Jane;\n Then I\u2019d like a lot of things\n That are run by hidden springs\u2014\n Rats and spiders, and the like;\n And I need a brand new bike\n With a coaster-brake that will\n Make work easy down a hill.\n \n There! That\u2019s all I asked him for.\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Still, I\u2019m hoping (since he\u2019s Dutch)\n That he\u2019ll bring a few things more\u2014\n &nbsp; &nbsp; As I have not asked for much!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This is all that I expect<br \/>\n     Santa Claus to bring to me:<br \/>\n One large boat\u2014my old one\u2019s wrecked;<br \/>\n     One large, lovely Christmas tree;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","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=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}