{"id":268,"date":"2017-02-15T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/?p=268"},"modified":"2017-02-15T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:40:12","slug":"poem-18-poem-in-the-american-manner-by-dorothy-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/archives\/268","title":{"rendered":"Poem 18: Poem in the American Manner by Dorothy Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"
I dunno yer highfalutin’ words, but here’s th’ way it seems<\/div>\n
When I’m peekin’ out th’ winder o’ my little House o Dreams;<\/div>\n
I’ve been lookin’ ‘roun’ this big ol’ world, as bizzy as a hive,<\/div>\n
An’ I want t’ tell ye, neighbor mine, it’s good t’ be alive.<\/div>\n
I’ve ben settin’ here, a-thinkin’ hard, an’ say, it seems t’ me<\/div>\n
That this big ol’ world is jest about as good as it kin be,<\/div>\n
With its starvin’ little babies, an’ its battles, an’ its strikes,<\/div>\n
An’ its profiteers, an’ hold-up men\u2014th’ dawggone little tykes!<\/div>\n
An’ its hungry men that fought fer us, that nobody employs.<\/div>\n
An’ I think, “Why, shucks, we’re jest a lot o’ grown-up little boys!”<\/div>\n
An’ I settle back, an’ light my pipe, an’ reach fer Mother’s hand,<\/div>\n
An’ I wouldn’t swap my peace o’ mind fer nothin’ in the land;<\/div>\n
Fer this world uv ours, that jest was made fer folks like me an’ you<\/div>\n
Is a purty good ol’ place t’ live\u2014say, neighbor, ain’t it true?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I dunno yer highfalutin’ words, but here’s th’ way it seems When I’m peekin’ out th’ winder o’ my little House o Dreams; I’ve been lookin’ ‘roun’ this big ol’ world, as bizzy as a hive, An’ I want t’ tell ye, neighbor mine, it’s good t’ be alive. I’ve ben settin’ here, a-thinkin’ hard, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}