{"id":7062,"date":"2021-04-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2021-04-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T05:00:00","slug":"ladys-slippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/ladys-slippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady&#8217;s Slippers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85035720\/1913-04-21\/ed-2\/seq-4\/\"><em>Perth Amboy Evening News, April 21, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n Deep hidden in the green of woods,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where rain of sunlight, sifting through\n The woven layers of the leaves\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Makes diamonds of the dew,\n There is a secret nook I know\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where yellow lady\u2019s slippers grow.\n \n And I have seen from day to day\n \u00a0 \u00a0 (Though new ones come to take the place)\n How soon they seem to wear away\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And lose their first day\u2019s grace.\n And I have often mourned that they\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Should be so quick to fade away.\n \n It\u2019s strange I never guessed this thing\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Before, but now I know,\n Because I found a fairy ring\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Beside the place they grow\u2014\n The moss, which is the fairies\u2019 lawn,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With toadstools that they sit upon.\n \n The fairies put the flowers there\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of course. They never grew by chance.\n At midnight each one takes a pair\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They wear the slippers when they dance.\n And with the peeping of the sun\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They hang them on their stalks and run.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Perth Amboy Evening News, April 21, 1913. Deep hidden in the green of woods, \u00a0 \u00a0 Where rain of sunlight, sifting through The woven layers of the leaves \u00a0 \u00a0 Makes diamonds of the dew, There is a secret nook I know \u00a0 \u00a0 Where yellow lady\u2019s slippers grow. And I have seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-perth-amboy-evening-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","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=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}