{"id":447,"date":"2021-01-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2021-01-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:00:00","slug":"the-happy-wayfarer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-happy-wayfarer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happy Wayfarer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-01-26\/ed-1\/seq-28\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, January 26, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n Bill Wanders was smoking\n And thusly he spake:\n The high cost of living\n Ne\u2019er keeps me awake,\n I travel wherever\n It suits me to go\u2014\n Far south when the blizzards\n Of winter time blow,\n Then north in the summer,\n To \u2018scape from the heat.\n I sleep when it pleases,\n I\u2019ve plenty to eat.\n \n I never pay money\n For riding on trains,\n A fight with the brakeman\n The worst of my pains.\n No hotel clerk flaunts me,\n No head waiter frowns,\n I tarry quite cheaply\n In dozens of towns.\n \u2019Tis true that my garments\n Aren\u2019t always well pressed;\n It frequently happens\n I\u2019m carelessly dressed.\n \n And needing a bath and\n A shave, maybe, too.\n But granted these hardships,\n My troubles are few.\n O glad is the life of\n A knight of the road,\n Though little respected\n At home or abroad.\n Let socialists rave and\n Economists fight,\n Bill Wanders will tell you\n This world is all right!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Bill Wanders was smoking<br \/>\n And thusly he spake:<br \/>\n The high cost of living<br \/>\n Ne\u2019er keeps me awake,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}