{"id":7058,"date":"2021-04-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7058"},"modified":"2021-04-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:00:00","slug":"the-unrealized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-unrealized\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unrealized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-04-19\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, April 19, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n They say our legislature\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is going to find a way\n To conquer human nature\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And drive its faults away;\n To shield us from oppression\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Although with some regret\n We note this sad confession:\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It never happened yet.\n \n Mankind has ever striven\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For sweet Perfection\u2019s state.\n All power has been given\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To kings and princes great.\n On soldiers, saints and others\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Its hopes the world has set\n To make men dwell as brothers;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It never happened yet.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> They say our legislature<br \/>\n     Is going to find a way<br \/>\n To conquer human nature<br \/>\n     And drive its faults away;<\/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],"class_list":["post-7058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058","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=7058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}