{"id":7702,"date":"2021-11-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2021-11-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T06:00:00","slug":"in-a-dozen-years-from-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/in-a-dozen-years-from-now\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Dozen Years From Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Rock Island Argus, November 17, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll all flit \u2018round in aeroplanes
    In a dozen years from now;
We may have done with aches and pains
    In a dozen years from now.
Great ships will pass through Panama,
Baseball games may have ceased to draw,
And ma may vote instead of pa
    In a dozen years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We may have blotted out disease
    In a dozen years from now;
We may have bridged the broadest seas
    In a dozen years from now;
New York may fully understand
That west of Jersey there\u2019s a land
Containing cities great and grand,
    In a dozen years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caruso may have ceased to sing
    In a dozen years from now;
Men may be sick of traveling
    In a dozen years from now.
No more divorces may be sought,
The last big fight may have been fought,
And guides may cease from being shot,
    In a dozen years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice may no longer keep us vexed
    In a dozen years from now;
We may have Mexico annexed
    In a dozen years from now.
The cost of living may be low;
It isn\u2019t very likely, though,
That those who work will think it so
    In a dozen years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

War may be banished from the earth
    In a dozen years from now;
Men may be measured by their worth
    In a dozen years from now.
But doubtless there will still survive
Men who will fret when others thrive,
And two and two will not make five
    In a dozen years from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rock Island Argus, November 17, 1913. By Henry Howland. We\u2019ll all flit \u2018round in aeroplanes    In a dozen years from now;We may have done with aches and pains    In a dozen years from now.Great ships will pass through Panama,Baseball games may have ceased to draw,And ma may vote instead of pa  […]<\/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":[161],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","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=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}