{"id":6872,"date":"2021-03-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2021-03-09T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T06:00:00","slug":"spirit-of-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/spirit-of-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-03-09\/ed-1\/seq-24\/\"><em>Evening Star, March 9, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n \u201cI did my best,\u201d said Uncle Jim,.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cNo one can say I shirk.\n I started in with earnest vim\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To get a chance to work.\n I didn\u2019t sit in calm content\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Nor indolent disgrace.\n I wrote straight to the President\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And asked him for a place.\n \n \u201cThe sun is shining on the stream\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That sings its song so light;\n And underneath the waves that gleam\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Are fish who yearn to bite.\n In spite of disappointment sad\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I do not sigh or sob.\n To tell the truth, I\u2019m rather glad\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I didn\u2019t get a job.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cI did my best,\u201d said Uncle Jim,.<br \/>\n     \u201cNo one can say I shirk.<br \/>\n I started in with earnest vim<br \/>\n     To get a chance to work.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","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=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}