{"id":9672,"date":"2021-01-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2021-01-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T06:00:00","slug":"jimmys-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/jimmys-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy&#8217;s Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85035720\/1913-01-03\/ed-2\/seq-4\/\"><em>Perth Amboy Evening News, January 3, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n My pa says, \u201cStep lively, son,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; An\u2019 do as you are bid.\u201d\n My sister, too, the biggest one,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Calls out, \u201cI want you, kid!\u201d\n Ma wants some kindlin\u2019 from below\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Or somethin\u2019 else like that,\n An\u2019 grandpa\u2019s goin\u2019 out, an\u2019 so\n &nbsp; &nbsp; I\u2019ve got to hunt his hat.\n \n If I start out to go an\u2019 play\u2014\n &nbsp; &nbsp; It doesn\u2019t matter when\u2014\n Somebody \u2018fore I get away\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Will call me back again.\n An\u2019 when they git me back about?\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The only thing they do\n Is look at me an\u2019 holler out,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ve got a job for you!\u201d\n \n It makes no difference how I try,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Them jobs is never done.\n \u2018Cause \u2018fore I git one finished, why,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; They find another one.\n An\u2019 if I have some doggone task\n &nbsp; &nbsp; An\u2019 go to play instead\n They all say they\u2019re surprised an\u2019 ask,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cWhatever ails the kid?\u201d\n \n You bet I know what ails me too.\n &nbsp; &nbsp; I ain\u2019t no reg\u2019lar dunce.\n They always want that I should do\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Too many jobs at once.\n But I don\u2019t see why they should call\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Me \u201clazybones.\u201d Well, yes,\n The thing that ails me most of all\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Is too much folks, I guess.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> My pa says, \u201cStep lively, son,<br \/>\n     An\u2019 do as you are bid.\u201d<br \/>\n My sister, too, the biggest one,<br \/>\n     Calls out, \u201cI want you, kid!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-perth-amboy-evening-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672","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=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}