{"id":7148,"date":"2021-05-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2021-05-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:00:00","slug":"gentlemen-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/gentlemen-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentlemen of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/1913-05-25\/ed-1\/seq-10\/\"><em>New York Tribune, May 25, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><br>(An Oxford don declares that walking is the form of exercise most often associated with high intelligence.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">If I might leave my dull abode\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And all the strife and cares of town,\n And, light of heart, essay the road\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That leads by wood and open down,\n Then, as I spread those pinions wide\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That bear me through the realms of song,\n My soul would surely soar and glide\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The while my body jogged along.\n \n The lofty mind can ne\u2019er abide\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In hooting car or roaring train;\n Only the rhythmic swinging stride\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Can vivify the sluggish brain.\n Come forth, O muse! and let us fare\n \u00a0 \u00a0 By vale and hill through scented ways\n To fill our lungs with scented air\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And witch the world with wondrous lays!\n \n And as I speed on winged feet\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Thrumming the while my gentle lyre,\n A glorious band I there shall meet\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In unconventional attire,\n Unrazored men with shaggy hair\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Whose faces show a healthy tan;\n Not tramps, indeed, as some declare\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But dons of Oxford to a man!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I might leave my dull abode<br \/>\n     And all the strife and cares of town,<br \/>\n And, light of heart, essay the road<br \/>\n     That leads by wood and open down,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tribune","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","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=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}