{"id":2896,"date":"2018-07-05T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/HatchetOnline\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2018-07-05T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:34:39","slug":"in-the-loft-with-lizzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/in-the-loft-with-lizzie\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Loft with Lizzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">by Mary Elizabeth Naugle<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">First published in April\/May, 2004, Volume 1, Issue 2, <em>The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">While William dealt Pa forty whacks,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Out in the barn Miss Liz played jacks:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cThese jacks,\u201d she thought, \u201cwill make good sinkers,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Then I won\u2019t have to filch the tinker\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cMy goodness, did I hear a noise? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>It must have been those tiresome boys,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Me and Brownie, stealing pears\u2014<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Ours are superior to theirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cLo, could that be a wild-eyed wight?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">No, no \u2018tis but a trick of light.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The bell tolls, pshaw; \u2018twill be a bother,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>But I\u2019d best go awaken Father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cStepma was due an hour ago,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Although her girth makes progress slow,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>So I leave off my lofty fun,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Papa to shake, Stepma to shun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cPa\u2019s corse drips blood from chaise to floor;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">What are antimacassars for?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Let Mag get help; the flats can scorch<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>While I play jacks on the back porch.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A Lizzie Borden poem by Mary Elizabeth Naugle.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}