{"id":9238,"date":"2023-03-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2023-03-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:00:00","slug":"the-joys-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-joys-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joys of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84031081\/1915-03-25\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Albuquerque Morning Journal, March 25, 1915<\/a>. By Bliss Carman.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Now the joys of the road are chiefly these,<br\/>A crimson touch on the hardwood trees;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A vagrant morning wide and blue,<br\/>In early fall, when the wind walks, too;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A shadowy highway cool and brown,<br\/>Alluring up and enticing down;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>From ripply water to dappled swamp,<br\/>From purple glory to scarlet pomp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The outward eye, the quiet will,<br\/>And the striding heart from hill to hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>An idle moon, a bubbling spring,<br\/>The sea in the pine-tops murmuring;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A scrap of gossip at the ferry,<br\/>A comrade neither glum nor merry;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Asking nothing, revealing naught,<br\/>But minting the words from a fund of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>These are the joys of the open road,<br\/>For him who travels without a load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Morning Journal, March 25, 1915. By Bliss Carman. Now the joys of the road are chiefly these,A crimson touch on the hardwood trees; A vagrant morning wide and blue,In early fall, when the wind walks, too; A shadowy highway cool and brown,Alluring up and enticing down; From ripply water to dappled swamp,From [&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":[69],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-morning-journal","category-newspapers","tag-bliss-carman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","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=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}