{"id":9653,"date":"2020-12-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2020-12-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T06:00:00","slug":"a-sermon-to-the-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-sermon-to-the-traveler\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sermon to the Traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1912-12-02\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Tacoma Times, December 2, 1912<\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n Don\u2019t be a clam when you travel,\n Don\u2019t sit like a mute in your seat;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s a lot you can learn\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If you\u2019ll pleasantly turn\n And talk to the folks you will meet;\n There\u2019s a heap of good tales will unravel\n If you\u2019ll merely be cordial and kind,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For a wise man can gain\n \u00a0 \u00a0 From his talks on the train\n A whole bunch of food for his mind.\n \n Some people could travel forever\n And never be wiser at all\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Though they covered the map\n \u00a0 \u00a0 While the sociable chap\n Will gain by a journey that\u2019s small.\n It\u2019s well to make every endeavor\n To let down the conventional bars,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For you\u2019ll benefit, if\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You don\u2019t act like a stiff\n With the folks that you meet on the cars.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Don\u2019t be a clam when you travel,<br \/>\n Don\u2019t sit like a mute in your seat;<br \/>\n     There\u2019s a lot you can learn<br \/>\n     If you\u2019ll pleasantly turn<br \/>\n And talk to the folks you will meet;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","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=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}