{"id":9419,"date":"2023-06-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2023-06-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T05:00:00","slug":"homesickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/homesickness\/","title":{"rendered":"Homesickness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1915-06-24\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, June 24, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve wandered through the city,\u201d murmured Hezekiah Bings.<br\/>\u201cI\u2019ve seen an\u2019 heard a lot of mighty interestin\u2019 things.<br\/>I\u2019ve seen the motor cars that went all screamin\u2019 on their way<br\/>An\u2019 sprained an eyelid winkin\u2019 at a motion picture play.<br\/>I\u2019ve heard the trolley buzzin\u2019 down below or up above<br\/>An\u2019 got into the crowds where nervous people shout and shove;<br\/>I am full of strange impressions that I gained by night an\u2019 day\u2014<br\/>Oh, take me to some quiet spot where they kin fade away.<br\/>Jes\u2019 let me sit upon the fence an\u2019 contemplate the scenery;<br\/>Some place where everything is not conducted by machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve listened to the whistle an\u2019 the rattle an\u2019 the roar<br\/>An\u2019 joined the eager throng that stood around and cheered the score.<br\/>I\u2019ve chased a car for blocks an\u2019 then I\u2019ve swung upon a strap<br\/>Until I felt that I was scattered all around the map.<br\/>I dearly love the city with its music an\u2019 its lights,<br\/>But I\u2019ve improved my mind enough a-lookin\u2019 at the sights.<br\/>The dearest place I know of, an\u2019 its there I long to roam,<br\/>Is where you buy a ticket that\u2019ll carry you back home.<br\/>So start me for the country, with its sunlight and its greenery,<br\/>Where you kin live an\u2019 die without assistance from machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha Daily Bee, June 24, 1915. \u201cI\u2019ve wandered through the city,\u201d murmured Hezekiah Bings.\u201cI\u2019ve seen an\u2019 heard a lot of mighty interestin\u2019 things.I\u2019ve seen the motor cars that went all screamin\u2019 on their wayAn\u2019 sprained an eyelid winkin\u2019 at a motion picture play.I\u2019ve heard the trolley buzzin\u2019 down below or up aboveAn\u2019 got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419","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=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}