{"id":9679,"date":"2021-01-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2021-01-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:00:00","slug":"suffragettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/suffragettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffragettes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-01-12\/ed-1\/seq-20\/\"><em>Evening Star, January 12, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Oh, a suffragette will suffer\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And you need not try to bluff her\n With remarks about her being out of place.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The ballot she will better,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 She will hand-paint every letter\n Till it proves a work of rare artistic grace.\n \n \u00a0 \u00a0 It is true that some are dashing\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Madly in for window smashing,\n And we tremble at reports from far away.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But the ladies bent on voting,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We are happy to be noting,\n Manage matters better in the U. S. A.\n \n \u00a0 \u00a0 When they go about campaigning\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They don\u2019t start in with complaining\n That a man is nothing but \u201ca horrid brute.\u201d\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It is such an easy matter\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His intelligence to flatter\n Till he thinks he\u2019s very wise and something cute.\n \n \u00a0 \u00a0 While they\u2019re mighty in convention\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They can also claim attention\n By a smile and by a twinkle of the eye.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They don\u2019t make ferocious speeches.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They\u2019re not lemons. They are peaches.\n And no doubt they\u2019ll all be voting by and by.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>     Oh, a suffragette will suffer<br \/>\n     And you need not try to bluff her<br \/>\n With remarks about her being out of place.<\/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":[248],"class_list":["post-9679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679","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=9679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}