{"id":9662,"date":"2020-12-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2020-12-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T06:00:00","slug":"bohemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/bohemia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bohemia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1912-12-05\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Tacoma Times, December 5, 1912<\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n They eat off a trunk and they sit on a box,\n The floor is all cluttered with fish-nets and socks,\n They live on spaghetti and red ink and cheese\n And talk about \u201cArt\u201d with some unction and ease.\n Their hair\u2019s never trimmed, and it\u2019s seldom they shave,\n At \u201cpuritan morals\u201d they sneer and they rave;\n They care not to sweep or to scrub or to dust,\n They never pay bills till they find that they must,\n They go in for fads in their manner of dress,\n They revel in dirt and they\u2019re fond of a mess.\n \n Of \u201cbase money grubbers\u201d they frequently rant,\n Referring to artists who \u201csell\u201d\u2014which they can\u2019t!\n Yet give them a chance where the cash is the test,\n They\u2019re just as commercial as all of the rest.\n \n They strut and they swagger, they poise and they pose,\n And each has a horn which he constantly blows,\n Their minds and their rooms with disorder are rife\u2014\n And they call this \u201cBohemian Life!\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> They eat off a trunk and they sit on a box,<br \/>\n The floor is all cluttered with fish-nets and socks,<br \/>\n They live on spaghetti and red ink and cheese<br \/>\n And talk about \u201cArt\u201d with some unction and ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-9662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662","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=9662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}