{"id":8560,"date":"2022-10-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8560"},"modified":"2022-10-22T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T05:00:00","slug":"an-autumn-wail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/an-autumn-wail\/","title":{"rendered":"An Autumn Wail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1914-10-22\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, October 22, 1914<\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>By gum, I hate to go to school;<br\/>I\u2019d almost rather be a fool.<br\/>I got to set in there all day<br\/>When I ort to go out and play.<br\/>I think it is a doggone bluff<br\/>To make us learn a lot of stuff<br\/>Which we ain\u2019t never goin\u2019 to use,<br\/>Just look at all the time we lose.<br\/>Who cares if Nero burned up Rome,<br\/>Or if the world is round or flat?<br\/>I don\u2019t, and I will tell you that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I have to get licked every day,<br\/>It somehow seems to come that way.<br\/>If some kid don\u2019t perform the trick,<br\/>The teacher does it with a stick.<br\/>And when the teacher licks me bad<br\/>I always get one more from dad.<br\/>There\u2019s nearly always somethin\u2019 wrong<br\/>Right from the first tap of the gong.<br\/>There ain\u2019t no peace for any kid<br\/>Who goes to school as I have did.<br\/>It makes me stubborn as a mewl,<br\/>By gum, to have to go to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Topeka State Journal, October 22, 1914. By Roy K. Moulton. By gum, I hate to go to school;I\u2019d almost rather be a fool.I got to set in there all dayWhen I ort to go out and play.I think it is a doggone bluffTo make us learn a lot of stuffWhich we ain\u2019t never [&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-8560","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\/8560","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=8560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}