{"id":8443,"date":"2022-09-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2022-09-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T05:00:00","slug":"the-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"The Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1914-09-04\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, September 4, 1914<\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Some years ago my father drove an ancient piebald mare,<br\/>And when he met a motor car he\u2019d scowl at it and glare.<br\/>Would he turn out? No, not a bit. He\u2019d try to hog the road.<br\/>When they would ask him to give way he\u2019d yell, \u201cI\u2019ve got a load!\u201d<br\/>His hatred for the gas machines was unrelenting, quite.<br\/>It was a mania with him; he talked it day and night.<br\/>He said that any feller who would drive one was a fool;<br\/>For father was a backward man, who followed the old school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>But things have changed since then a bit. Although for years he roared<br\/>About the gol-dum devil carts, he\u2019s gone and bought a Ford.<br\/>He beats it round the countryside at thirty miles an hour,<br\/>And when an old horse heaves in sight he crowds on all his power.<br\/>He nearly busts with anger when he wants the right of way,<br\/>And hollers, \u201cFor the love of Mike, lay over there, you jay!\u201d<br\/>He\u2019s got the latest fol-de-rols, green goggles and the like;<br\/>He is the greatest motor fiend who ambles down the pike.<br\/>It\u2019s just the same old story. Yes, indeed, it\u2019s nothing new.<br\/>The war of horse and car depends upon the point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Topeka State Journal, September 4, 1914. By Roy K. Moulton. Some years ago my father drove an ancient piebald mare,And when he met a motor car he\u2019d scowl at it and glare.Would he turn out? No, not a bit. He\u2019d try to hog the road.When they would ask him to give way he\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-8443","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\/8443","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=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}