{"id":6855,"date":"2021-03-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2021-03-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:00:00","slug":"fifty-years-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/fifty-years-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1913-03-29\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Omaha Daily Bee, March 29, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n They sit in the winter gloaming,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the fire burns bright between;\n One has passed seventy summers,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the other just seventeen.\n \n They rest in a happy silence\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As the shadows deepen fast;\n One lives in a coming future,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And one in a long, long past.\n \n Each dreams of a rush of music,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And a question whispered low;\n One will hear it this evening,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 One heard it long ago.\n \n Each dreams of a loving husband\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Whose brave heart is hers alone;\n For one the joy is coming,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For one the joy has flown.\n \n Each dreams of a life of gladness\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Spent under the sunny skies;\n And both the hope and the memory\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Shine in the happy eyes.\n \n Who knows which dream is the brightest?\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And who knows which is the best?\n The sorrow and joy are mingled,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But only the end is rest.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> They sit in the winter gloaming,<br \/>\n     And the fire burns bright between;<br \/>\n One has passed seventy summers,<br \/>\n     And the other just seventeen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","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=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}