{"id":6989,"date":"2020-10-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2020-10-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T05:00:00","slug":"the-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1912-10-11\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Tacoma Times, October 11, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n We laugh at the way he swaggers and poses\n \u00a0 And talks of his triumphs in various parts,\n We grin at the tale which he grandly discloses,\n \u00a0 And yet\u2014there is sympathy deep in our hearts;\n For his is a life which is brief in its glory\n \u00a0 And long, oh, so long, in its struggle and strain!\n Who minds if he boasts of a fame transitory\n \u00a0 And tells of it over and over again?\n \n For when on the stage he is placing before us\n \u00a0 The passion and beauty and wonder of life,\n The work of the masters who never can bore us,\n \u00a0 The love and the laughter, the stress and the strife.\n He makes us forget, for the time, all the real,\n \u00a0 The everyday world, in the world of romance;\n He wakes us again to our youthful ideal\n \u00a0 When love was a melody, life was a dance!\n \n And this he must do, though his own heart is breaking,\n \u00a0 Though life has been cruel and fortune a jade;\n Though fame stays a day and is years in the making,\n \u00a0 The \u201cplay is the thing,\u201d and the role must be played!\n He serves us full well where the footlights are gleaming,\n \u00a0 So give him his \u201cbravo,\u201d his glad curtain call,\n And leave him in peace to his boasts and his dreaming\u2014\n \u00a0 He\u2019s earned them, in truth, and he\u2019s paid for them all!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We laugh at the way he swaggers and poses<br \/>\n   And talks of his triumphs in various parts,<br \/>\n We grin at the tale which he grandly discloses,<br \/>\n   And yet\u2014there is sympathy deep in our hearts;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-6989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989","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=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}