{"id":39,"date":"2020-12-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2020-12-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T01:00:00","slug":"the-daily-dangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-daily-dangle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Dangle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1912-12-29\/ed-1\/seq-20\/\">Evening Star, December 29, 1912<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n They sing about the dear old farm,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And of the leafy lane,\n And of the village school whose charm\n &nbsp; &nbsp; They cannot quite explain.\n And since they wander through the map\n &nbsp; &nbsp; While touching strains are sung,\n I\u2019ll carol of the street car strap,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Where I have often hung!\n \n How I swayed with courage stout,\n Like some banner tossed about!\n &nbsp; &nbsp; I almost learned to take a little nap.\n With a cultivated twist\n Of the muscles of my wrist,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; I have dangled daily from the street car strap!\n \n We strive to view the roof o\u2019erhead\n &nbsp; &nbsp; With an expression sweet.\n We say \u201cBeg pardon!\u201d as we tread\n &nbsp; &nbsp; On one another\u2019s feet.\n How proudly shines the polished place\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Round which our hands we wrap,\n As in suspension there we grace\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The dear old street car strap!\n \n How it helped to keep my nerve\n As we went around the curve\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And almost fell into somebody\u2019s lap.\n I enjoy my only chance\n At a modern ragtime dance\n &nbsp; &nbsp; As I hang upon that dear old street car strap.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> They sing about the dear old farm,<br \/>\n     And of the leafy lane,<br \/>\n And of the village school whose charm<br \/>\n     They cannot quite explain.<\/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":[248,275],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson","tag-shooting-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}