{"id":9666,"date":"2020-12-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2020-12-09T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T06:00:00","slug":"easing-a-grouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/easing-a-grouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing a Grouch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-12-09\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, December 9, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n A yard or two of stuff that\u2019s called a skirt,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A waist that\u2019s made of some expensive lace,\n A pair of shoes that are so tight they hurt,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Some padding out in just the proper place,\n A hat that costs nine times what it is worth;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A peck or two of someone else\u2019s hair;\n A complexion bought most anywhere on earth,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A corset that is too tight everywhere,\n A bundle of artistic temperament,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A flow of conversation that is light,\n A passing whiff of some delicious scent,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A show of vanity from morn till night\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And that\u2019s a woman.\n \n A bag of wind inflated without cause;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A blowhard and an ardent egotist\n Who knows more than the ones who made the laws;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A set of teeth, a mustache and a fist;\n Some shoulders that are padded out of shape;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A smell of burned tobacco that is stale;\n A blossom on the nose from festive grape;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Some stories that make modest folk turn pale;\n A punk cigar that sizzles all day long;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A thing whose chiefest aim is just to eat;\n A party who is right, all others wrong,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who\u2019s always 99 per cent conceit\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And that\u2019s a man.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A yard or two of stuff that\u2019s called a skirt,<br \/>\n     A waist that\u2019s made of some expensive lace,<br \/>\n A pair of shoes that are so tight they hurt,<br \/>\n     Some padding out in just the proper place,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666","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=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}