{"id":614,"date":"2021-02-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2021-02-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:00:00","slug":"the-pendulum-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-pendulum-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pendulum of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1913-02-21\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, February 21, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em>\n \n\n I remember back in the eighties when Hank Frisby went to school\n Everybody in the village had him doped out for a fool.\n Fer he was so gol dum homely, all the critics in the place\n Said there wasn\u2019t no intelligence or larnin\u2019 in his face.\n He was tall, rawboned and knockneed and as awkward as a cow\n And the gals they always passed him by and never smiled nohow.\n He was bashful and was awkward and he seemed to have no vim\n And the fellows round the school house always poked their fun at him.\n \n\n Nuthin\u2019 much was said about it when he left our town one day\n Hardly anybody knowed the fact that he had gone away.\n Once in a while they\u2019d mention Hank and wonder where he went\n But nobody ever found out, fer they didn\u2019t care a cent.\n Nigh a dozen years passed by and then one day a thing occurred\n And it caused more lively gossip than the town had ever heard.\n Great big auto came a-tearin\u2019 down the main street with a yank\n And the feller in the back seat givin\u2019 orders\u2014he was Hank.\n \n\n Hank had been out west and struck a vein of ore both wide and deep\n And he picked up half a million while our town folks were asleep.\n When he jumped out of his auto full of vigor and of vim\n You should have seen the town folks all a toadyin\u2019 to him.\n He put up a splendid mansion and he wed the village belle\n And he has his dinner evenin\u2019s\u2014or at least that\u2019s what they tell.\n He\u2019s mayor now and owns a mill, a railroad and a bank\n And there\u2019 no one in the village who ain\u2019t mighty proud of Hank.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I remember back in the eighties when Hank Frisby went to school<br \/>\n Everybody in the village had him doped out for a fool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}