{"id":25989,"date":"2023-04-16T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T04:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25989"},"modified":"2023-04-16T21:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T04:27:32","slug":"the-damnedest-finest-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/the-damnedest-finest-ruins\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Damnedest Finest Ruins”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“The Damnedest Finest Ruins”
A poem by Laurence Harris, 1906<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put me somewhere west of East Street, where there’s nothing left but dust,
And the boys are all a-hustling and everything’s gone bust;
Where all the buildings standing there sort o’ blink and blindly stare
At the damndest finest ruins ever gazed on anywhere!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bully ruins, brick and wall, through the night I’ve heard you call,
Sort o’ sorry for each other, cause you had to burn and fall;
From the Ferry to Van Ness you’re a God-forsaken mess,
But the damndest finest ruins, nothing more and nothing less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Rubes they come a-rubbering, and a-hunting souvenirs,
And the fools they try to tell us it’ll take a hundred years
Before we’ve even started and why don’t we come and live
And build our homes in Oakland on the land they’ve got to give?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got to give! Why, on my soul, I would rather bore a hole
And live right in the ashes than to be an Oakland mole;
And if they’d give the pick of their buildings fine and slick,
In the damndest finest ruins, I would rather be a brick<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Courtesy of Melissa Geissinger on Facebook.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Damnedest Finest Ruins”A poem by Laurence Harris, 1906 Put me somewhere west of East Street, where there’s nothing left but dust,And the boys are all a-hustling and everything’s gone bust;Where all the buildings standing there sort o’ blink and blindly stareAt the damndest finest ruins ever gazed on anywhere!… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[424,425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25993,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25989\/revisions\/25993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}