{"id":7797,"date":"2021-12-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2021-12-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:00:00","slug":"the-lost-auto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-lost-auto\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Auto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Topeka State Journal, December 8, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lying one day neath the auto,
    Sweating and soaked with oil;
I worked at a cranky engine
    And my only reward was toil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know not what I was saying,
\u00a0 \u00a0 As I tinkered and wrenched and tore;
I doubt not ’twas something quite savage,
\u00a0 \u00a0 It may be I even swore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My patience gave out on that engine,
    With a hammer I hit it a thump
That jarred loose some thingamadinkus
    And started it up at a jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before one could twinkle an eyelid,
    Before there was time for surprise,
That car tore away down the highway,
    And I lay glaring up at the skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sprang up and madly I followed,
    But soon gave it up in disgust,
For that runaway car quickly vanished
    In a thick snorting cyclone of dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sought it in byways and hedges,
    In highways and in busy streets;
And, though I made thorough inquiries,
    With never a trace did I meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps in some future existence,
    In worlds far beyond mortal\u2019s ken,
I shall once more make search for that auto,
    But I doubt if I find it then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Topeka State Journal, December 8, 1913. By Roy K. Moulton. Lying one day neath the auto,    Sweating and soaked with oil;I worked at a cranky engine    And my only reward was toil. I know not what I was saying,\u00a0 \u00a0 As I tinkered and wrenched and tore;I doubt not ’twas something […]<\/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-7797","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\/7797","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=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}