{"id":261,"date":"2020-11-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2020-11-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:00:00","slug":"responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1912-11-07\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Seattle Star, November 7, 1912<\/a><\/em>.<em>\nBy Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n Well, after all, the whole thing\u2019s up to Us,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 However we may try to shift the shame,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s you and I that really are to blame\n If things are in a tangle and a muss.\n \n If Might is Right, if Goodness yields to Greed,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If Mammon thrives, and God is quite forgot,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If evil reigns in many a beauty spot,\n It is because We have not taken heed.\n \n The wrongs that live are those we tolerate\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Because we have not tried to make them right;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If Darkness rules where Justice calls for Light,\n If Love is trampled out by Wrath and Hate,\n \n If little children toll and women slave,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If some men starve while others feast and waste,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If Truth is lost and Liberty disgraced,\n If millions fast from childhood to the grave,\n \n It is because, for all our noise and fuss,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We stay content with matters as they are,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We have the final choice to make or mar\u2014\n Well, after all, the whole thing\u2019s up to Us!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Well, after all, the whole thing\u2019s up to Us,<br \/>\n     However we may try to shift the shame,<br \/>\n     It\u2019s you and I that really are to blame<br \/>\n If things are in a tangle and a muss.<\/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-261","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\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}