{"id":370,"date":"2020-10-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2020-10-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:00:00","slug":"song-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/song-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-10-01\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, October 1, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n I love the open road that down\n \u00a0 The river winds away\n And reaches on from town to town\n \u00a0 Through fields with flowers gay,\n That offers here and there a nook\n \u00a0 Beneath a shady tree\n Where proper folk ne\u2019er think to look\n \u00a0 Nor prying eye may see.\n \n I love the high and open sky;\n \u00a0 I love it when it\u2019s gray.\n I love the swallows as they fly,\n \u00a0 The fishes when they play.\n I love the crashing thunderstorm\n \u00a0 When \u2018neath a stack content,\n All snuggled up, serene and warm,\n \u00a0 I watch it till it\u2019s spent.\n \n I love the wind that comes and goes\n \u00a0 With soft and slumb\u2019rous sigh\n And flutters hollyhock and rose\n \u00a0 Whene\u2019er it passes by.\n It kisses tramp and money king\n \u00a0 Alike in open day.\n The praises of the road I sing\n \u00a0 And tramp upon my way.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I love the open road that down<br \/>\n   The river winds away<br \/>\n And reaches on from town to town<br \/>\n   Through fields with flowers gay,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-duncan-m-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}