{"id":8672,"date":"2022-11-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2022-11-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T06:00:00","slug":"lone-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lone-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84031081\/1914-11-08\/ed-1\/seq-10\/\">Albuquerque Morning Journal, November 8, 1914<\/a>. By Rutherford McLeod.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog and lone,<br\/>I\u2019m a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own,<br\/>I\u2019m a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep,<br\/>I love to sit and bay the moon to keep fat souls from sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll never be a lap dog, licking dirty feet,<br\/>A sleek dog, a meek dog, cringing for my meat,<br\/>Not for me the fireside, the well-filled plate,<br\/>But shut door, and sharp stone, and cuff and kick and hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Not for me the other dogs running by my side,<br\/>Some have run a short while, but none of them would bide,<br\/>O mine is still the lone trail, the hard trail, the best,<br\/>Wide wind and wild stars, and the hunger of the quest!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Morning Journal, November 8, 1914. By Rutherford McLeod. I\u2019m a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog and lone,I\u2019m a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own,I\u2019m a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep,I love to sit and bay the moon to keep fat souls from sleep. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-8672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-morning-journal","category-newspapers","tag-rutherford-mcleod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","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=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}