{"id":9661,"date":"2020-12-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2020-12-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:00:00","slug":"a-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1912-12-04\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, December 4, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n I didn\u2019t know I had it till a little while ago\u2014\n I haven\u2019t been sure of it till within a day or so.\n I\u2019d felt some symptoms of it, in a dim, uncertain way,\n Since first I read the ad about the medicine one day.\n Last week, however, I struck on the most convincing ad\n And now I know I\u2019ve got it, and I know I\u2019ve got it bad.\n \n At first I thought I saw some floating specs before my eyes,\n And then I\u2019d feel that lassitude each morning when I\u2019d rise;\n And so I kept on reading ads about man\u2019s awful ills\n Until I found I suffered from dumb fever, aches and chills;\n I noticed that full feeling for an hour succeeding meals\u2014\n I felt the way a man in gravest illness aways feels.\n \n Why, I\u2019ve had the symptoms; I\u2019ve had buzzing in the head,\n And sudden loss of temper; can\u2019t remember what I\u2019ve read;\n My feet will often \u201cgo to sleep\u201d; my fingertips get numb\u2014\n I shouldn\u2019t doubt if I should be both paralyzed and dumb.\n And, as I say, last week I struck the most convincing ad\u2014\n I don\u2019t know what may ail me, but I know I\u2019ve got it bad.\n \n I\u2019ve written to the doctor for that medicine of his\u2014\n I\u2019m ready to acknowledge that it\u2019s what he says it is.\n I\u2019ve got my letter written, telling what I have endured;\n My picture has been taken, and I\u2019m ready to be cured.\n I\u2019ve suffered all the symptoms that the other patients had\u2014\n I only know I\u2019ve got it, and I know I\u2019ve got it bad.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I didn\u2019t know I had it till a little while ago\u2014<br \/>\n I haven\u2019t been sure of it till within a day or so.<br \/>\n I\u2019d felt some symptoms of it, in a dim, uncertain way,<br \/>\n Since first I read the ad about the medicine one day.<\/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-9661","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\/9661","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=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}