{"id":9660,"date":"2020-12-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2020-12-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:00:00","slug":"a-dream-of-tophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-dream-of-tophet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream of Tophet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/1912-12-03\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">New York Tribune, December 3, 1912<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>\n \n\n I had a dream. It was not all a dream.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Methought I wandered in some dreadful land\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where deep crevasses yawned on either hand,\n Belching forth clouds of hot, malodorous steam.\n \n O\u2019er craggy piles of stone my path now lay,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Oft forming barriers high above my head,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2018Mid smoky fires that burnt a lurid red,\n And pools of slimy mud that barred my way.\n \n The heavy air was filled with sulfurous stench;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 My nostrils spurned it, as I drew my breath,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 My heart turned faint, and I was sick to death.\n Such awesome smells might make the boldest blench!\n \n Where lies the land with horrors thus replete;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Which gaping pits and piles of granite grace?\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Can you not answer? Lo, New York\u2019s the place;\n I did not dream\u2014I wandered down the street!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I had a dream. It was not all a dream.<br \/>\n     Methought I wandered in some dreadful land<br \/>\n     Where deep crevasses yawned on either hand,<br \/>\n Belching forth clouds of hot, malodorous steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tribune","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660","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=9660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}