{"id":9656,"date":"2020-12-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2020-12-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T01:00:00","slug":"the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1912-12-16\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, December 16, 1912<\/a>. By Philander Johnson<\/em>.\n\n\n How lucky is the great machine,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Set up with cunning art.\n It runs unwearied and serene,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; A flywheel at its heart.\n Its stomach is the furnace great;\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Its muscles are of steel;\n It does not halt or hesitate;\n &nbsp; &nbsp; It does not think or feel.\n Its veins are filled with fluid fire;\n &nbsp; &nbsp; It knows no bliss or pain;\n No fierce, unsatisfied desire\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Persuades it to complain.\n When it is ill, no nostrums quench\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The energy that thrills\u2014\n A man comes with a monkey wrench\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And cures it up or kills.\n And when it cannot do the tasks\n &nbsp; &nbsp; It has performed for years,\n It seeks the scrap pile and it asks\n &nbsp; &nbsp; No sympathy or tears.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> How lucky is the great machine,<br \/>\n     Set up with cunning art.<br \/>\n It runs unwearied and serene,<br \/>\n     A flywheel at its heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656","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=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}