{"id":9649,"date":"2020-10-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2020-10-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T05:00:00","slug":"everyday-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/everyday-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-10-26\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, October 26, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n Art may paint a picture,\n \u00a0 Art may carve a stone,\n Art may write a poem\n \u00a0 That is long on tone.\n Art may put on canvas\n \u00a0 Earth and sky and sea;\n Art that cooks a chicken\n \u00a0 Is the art for me.\n \n In the world artistic,\n \u00a0 Where the artists fare,\n There are many castles,\n \u00a0 Mostly in the air.\n But for building houses\n \u00a0 You would rather pick\n On the one artistic\n \u00a0 Who can lay a brick.\n \n Art that\u2019s for the artists\n \u00a0 Who are sad of eye\n And have flowing neckties\n \u00a0 Is in big supply.\n But of art more homely\n \u00a0 That can mend a chair\n For its fat old uncle\n \u00a0 There is none to spare.\n \n Schools of art are turning\n \u00a0 Out the graduates\n In alarming number,\n \u00a0 Light and heavy weights.\n But for daily plugging\n \u00a0 We would rather meet\n With a line of artists\n \u00a0 Who can mend a street.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Art may paint a picture,<br \/>\n   Art may carve a stone,<br \/>\n Art may write a poem<br \/>\n   That is long on tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-9649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-duncan-m-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649","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=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}