{"id":9671,"date":"2020-12-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2020-12-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T06:00:00","slug":"jes-as-sure-as-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/jes-as-sure-as-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jes\u2019 As Sure As Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-12-14\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, December 14, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n Take it when a fellow\u2019s naughty \u2018long about this time of year\n When you count the days a comin\u2019 \u2018fore old Santa Claus is here\n There is some one to remind you to be careful and be good\n Or the old chap will forget you and jes\u2019 pass the neighborhood.\n \n I\u2019ve heard it every Christmas time, and once I used to think\n That everything they said was so, and scarcely dared to wink;\n But I\u2019m a little wiser now and only smile today\n For Santa always seems to come no matter what they say.\n \n \u201cNow, Willie,\u201d says my mother, \u201cIf you\u2019re not a better boy,\n And don\u2019t stop doin\u2019 all these things which trouble and annoy,\n I fear that Santa Claus will jes\u2019 drive past on Christmas eve,\n And not a single present from his pack will stop to leave.\u201d\n \n But, even as she says it, I can see a half-way smile\n And I know she\u2019s only scarin\u2019 me and foolin\u2019 all the while.\n I don\u2019t believe that Santa Claus could bear to stay away;\n At any rate he always comes no matter what they say.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Take it when a fellow\u2019s naughty \u2018long about this time of year<br \/>\n When you count the days a comin\u2019 \u2018fore old Santa Claus is here<br \/>\n There is some one to remind you to be careful and be good<br \/>\n Or the old chap will forget you and jes\u2019 pass the neighborhood.<\/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-9671","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\/9671","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=9671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}