{"id":9675,"date":"2021-01-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2021-01-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T06:00:00","slug":"the-ignoramus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-ignoramus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ignoramus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-01-07\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, January 7, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n I don\u2019t know nuthin\u2019 about yer books,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; An\u2019 I don\u2019t much care to know \u2018em.\n I\u2019m scarcely wise to a novel\u2019s looks,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; An\u2019 I never has read a poem.\n Them written things is Greek to me,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; I\u2019m mightily shy on learnin\u2019,\n But I know the woods, an\u2019 the wind that\u2019s free\n &nbsp; &nbsp; An\u2019 the smell of the wood fires burnin\u2019.\n \n I know the call of the matin\u2019 bird\n &nbsp; &nbsp; An\u2019 the trail of the stag to water,\n An\u2019 the ways of the wild things, winged an\u2019 furred,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; That all of you \u201cwise\u201d folks slaughter.\n I know the song of the wind at night\n &nbsp; &nbsp; In the pine trees softly stirrin\u2019,\n An\u2019 I know the cry of the ducks in flight\n &nbsp; &nbsp; An\u2019 the sound of the wings a-whirrin\u2019.\n \n Do you know the way to pack an\u2019 camp\n &nbsp; &nbsp; When there ain\u2019t no friend beside you?\n Kin you keep yer route on an all-day\u2019s tramp\n &nbsp; &nbsp; With never a trail to guide you?\n You can\u2019t? Well, mebbe, I\u2019m quite a chump\n &nbsp; &nbsp; To you an\u2019 yer learned brothers,\n But let me tell you sir, plain an\u2019 plump,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; There certainly are some others!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I don\u2019t know nuthin\u2019 about yer books,<br \/>\n     An\u2019 I don\u2019t much care to know \u2018em.<br \/>\n I\u2019m scarcely wise to a novel\u2019s looks,<br \/>\n     An\u2019 I never has read a poem.<\/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-9675","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\/9675","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=9675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}