{"id":8273,"date":"2022-06-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2022-06-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:00:00","slug":"a-joy-ride-for-kathleen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-joy-ride-for-kathleen\/","title":{"rendered":"A Joy Ride for Kathleen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1914-06-08\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, June 8, 1914<\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll take you home again, Kathleen,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019ll have a wild, hair-raising ride;<br>I\u2019ve smuggled out the new machine,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And it shall now be fully tried;<br>The breeze shall fiercely fan your cheek,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The waiting cops we will despise;<br>We will ignore the words they speak,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The dust we make shall fill their eyes;<br>Oh, I will take you home, Kathleen;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I hope that you may feel no pain;<br>The car is all wiped nice and clean,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019ll have it spattered up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know you love me, Kathleen, dear,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Because the car I run is new;<br>I\u2019ll speed it on the highest gear,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And try to give new thrills to you;<br>The things that get in front of me<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019ll smash, and care but little how.<br>Hold to your hat and you shall see<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some mighty pretty scorching now.<br>Oh, I will take you home, Kathleen,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And if we give to others pain,<br>We\u2019ll blithely hurry from the scene<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And never drive that way again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rock Island Argus, June 8, 1914. By Henry Howland. I\u2019ll take you home again, Kathleen,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019ll have a wild, hair-raising ride;I\u2019ve smuggled out the new machine,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And it shall now be fully tried;The breeze shall fiercely fan your cheek,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The waiting cops we will despise;We will ignore the words they speak,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The dust we make shall fill [&hellip;]<\/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-8273","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\/8273","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=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}