{"id":2684,"date":"2008-12-10T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T21:07:24","slug":"chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/10\/chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"chicago, illinois…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
CHICAGO<\/u>: Carl Sandburg (1916)<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n
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    HOG Butcher for the World,
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
    Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
    Stormy, husky, brawling,
    City of the Big Shoulders.<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n
    They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
    And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.<\/sup><\/font> <\/div>\n
    And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
    And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
    Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
    Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
    Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
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      Bareheaded,
      Shoveling,
      Wrecking,
      Planning,
      Building, breaking, rebuilding,<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n
      Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
      Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
      Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
      Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
      and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing!<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
      Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
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        Hog Butcher
        Tool Maker
        Stacker of Wheat
        Player with Railroads
        and Freight Handler to the Nation.<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n

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        CHICAGO: Carl Sandburg (1916) HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}