{"id":417,"date":"2010-05-04T03:25:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T03:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=417"},"modified":"2010-05-04T03:25:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T03:25:53","slug":"portrait-of-a-machine-by-louis-untermeyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/portrait-of-a-machine-by-louis-untermeyer\/","title":{"rendered":"PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE by Louis Untermeyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-418\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LouisUntermeyer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-418 lazyload\" title=\"LouisUntermeyer\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LouisUntermeyer-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LouisUntermeyer-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LouisUntermeyer.jpg 458w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 229px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 229\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Untermeyer (1885-1997)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE by Louis Untermeyer<\/p>\n<p>What nudity is beautiful as this<br \/>\nObedient monster purring at its toil;<br \/>\nThese naked iron muscles dripping oil<br \/>\nAnd the sure-fingered rods that never miss.<br \/>\nThis long and shining flank of metal is<br \/>\nMagic that greasy labor cannot spoil;<br \/>\nWhile this vast engine that could rend the soil<br \/>\nConceals its fury with a gentle hiss.<\/p>\n<p>It does not vent its loathing, does not turn<br \/>\nUpon its makers with destroying hate.<br \/>\nIt bears a deeper malice; lives to earn<br \/>\nIts master&#8217;s bread and laughs to see this great<br \/>\nLord of the earth, who rules but cannot learn,<br \/>\nBecome the slave of what his slaves create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE by Louis Untermeyer What nudity is beautiful as this Obedient monster purring at its toil; These naked iron muscles dripping oil And the sure-fingered rods that never miss. This long and shining flank of metal is Magic that greasy labor cannot spoil; While this vast engine that could rend the soil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-1900s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}