{"id":7872,"date":"2022-01-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2022-01-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T06:00:00","slug":"the-winter-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-winter-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winter Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Birmingham Age Herald, January 11, 1914<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people say that summer is the only time to walk,
Or be outdoors, but Pop and me we don\u2019t believe such talk;
Why we go out the coldest days and tramp an hour or two,
And we see lots and lots of things that stay-homes never do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For if the trees are brown and bare and all the flowers are dead,
The woods are full of evergreens and berries bright and red;
And crows are flying round the fields and calling far and loud,
Or gathering in the tree-tops like a big convention crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And rabbits run across the road and scamper off so shy,
Or maybe squirrels on some high limb peep at us quick and sly;
And when the wind blows \u2018round the hill the leaves fly everywhere,
Or whirl off like a flock of birds upon the frosty air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if when we\u2019re a-walking out it should begin to snow,
We button up and hike along till we are all aglow;
And when we get back home again we look so fresh an\u2019 strong,
That folks say, \u201cMy but you look fine\u2014I wish I\u2019d went along.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Birmingham Age Herald, January 11, 1914.  Some people say that summer is the only time to walk,Or be outdoors, but Pop and me we don\u2019t believe such talk;Why we go out the coldest days and tramp an hour or two,And we see lots and lots of things that stay-homes never do. For if […]<\/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-7872","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\/7872","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=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}