{"id":469,"date":"2020-09-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2020-09-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T05:00:00","slug":"instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1912-09-15\/ed-1\/seq-24\/\">Evening Star, September 15, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n By hard experience we learn,\n \u00a0 Whatever our position,\n And pay, whichever way we turn,\n \u00a0 Right dearly for tuition.\n \n Before we walk we have to creep;\n \u00a0 We rise with many a tumble;\n \u00a0Before we learn life\u2019s road to keep\n \u00a0 How often must we stumble!\n \n Ere we can learn to think we grope\n \u00a0 Through much fantastic folly.\n Our smiles of friendship and of hope\n \u00a0 Are earned through melancholy.\n \n And so it is with every man,\n \u00a0 And so with many a nation;\n It is a part of nature\u2019s plan\u2014\n \u00a0 Compulsory education.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By hard experience we learn,<br \/>\n   Whatever our position,<br \/>\n And pay, whichever way we turn,<br \/>\n   Right dearly for tuition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248,275],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson","tag-shooting-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}