{"id":9665,"date":"2020-12-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2020-12-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:00:00","slug":"the-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-question-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1912-12-08\/ed-1\/seq-24\/\">Evening Star, December 8, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n My Uncle Jim has stood the test. He fought clear through the fray.\n He voted all his friends and kin upon election day.\n He knows the questions of the hour, with answers to them all,\n \u201cInitiative,\u201d \u201cReferendum,\u201d and likewise \u201cRecall!\u201d\n About the tariff question, too, he has a lot to say.\n He surely knows his alphabet both ways from schedule \u201cK.\u201d\n We\u2019re waiting for the news. Suspense makes all our bosoms throb;\n We\u2019re wondering if they\u2019re going to give dear Uncle Jim a job.\n \n He knows exactly how to answer queries on finance.\n Some folks have tried to puzzle him. They never stood a chance.\n The questions of our foreign policy he takes in turn\n And answers them offhand to any one who wants to learn.\n He knows the way to set \u2018em right when times get out of joint;\n This world to him is one sublime interrogation point.\n But the question now supreme\u2014with all our nerves it\u2019s playing hob\u2014\n Is simply this: Is Uncle Jim in Line to Get a Job?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> My Uncle Jim has stood the test. He fought clear through the fray.<br \/>\n He voted all his friends and kin upon election day.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665","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=9665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}