{"id":212,"date":"2020-11-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2020-11-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:00:00","slug":"in-the-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/in-the-maze\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Maze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-11-26\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, November 26, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n What a crisscross maze is life\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Take it any way you choose\n In the never ending strife\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As you gain and as you lose!\n Luck is with you now and then\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As you hurry for your goal\n Twisting through the maze again\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You are pitched into a hole.\n \n Out of it you scramble up,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Hoping to do mighty deeds\n Still of sorrow you must sup\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Ere your budding hope succeeds.\n How you struggle, how you groan,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As you buckle to your task\n Just to make success your own,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Just in fortune\u2019s smile to bask!\n \n But it isn\u2019t all a frost.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 There are seasons to be gay.\n Hope is never wholly lost\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Joys are blooming on your way.\n There\u2019s a path to your success\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You will find it after while\n If you seek with cheerfulness\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And you don\u2019t forget to smile.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> What a crisscross maze is life<br \/>\n     Take it any way you choose<br \/>\n In the never ending strife<br \/>\n     As you gain and as you lose!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-duncan-m-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","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=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}