{"id":9664,"date":"2020-12-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2020-12-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T06:00:00","slug":"the-travelers-bane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-travelers-bane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traveler&#8217;s Bane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1912-12-07\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Seattle Star, December 7, 1912<\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n The old Inns were pleasant\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In decades gone by,\n But just at the present\n \u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s none of them nigh.\n When travel was rougher\n \u00a0 \u00a0 These Inns served full well,\n But NOW we must suffer\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The Small Town Hotel!\n \n When, wayworn and dusty\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We land at the door,\n The rooms are all musty,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s mould on the floor.\n Ah, pity the drummer\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who must stay a spell\n Both winter and summer\n \u00a0 \u00a0 At this shine hotel!\n \n Its beds are all bumpy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 (Infrequently clean),\n Its oatmeal is lumpy,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Its lights kerosene;\n Its \u201clinen\u201d is spattered,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Its dining rooms smell,\n It\u2019s blowsy and battered\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The Small Town Hotel.\n \n Whatever you eat there\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is sure to be fried;\n The landlord you meet there\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is weazened and dried;\n There\u2019s no one to hop at\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The ring of your bell;\n It\u2019s awful to stop at\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The Small Town Hotel.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The old Inns were pleasant<br \/>\n     In decades gone by,<br \/>\n But just at the present<br \/>\n     There\u2019s none of them nigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","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=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}