{"id":7066,"date":"2021-04-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7066"},"modified":"2021-04-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:00:00","slug":"the-value-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-value-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-04-23\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, April 23, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n How drear a place the world would be\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If all who fail to win success\n Permitted all the rest to see\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The evidence of their distress!\n How fortunate it is that men\n \u00a0 \u00a0 So often hide the griefs they bear\n So often still try bravely when\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Their breasts are laden with despair.\n \n How few men ever would achieve\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The victories that are so sweet\n If each should let the world perceive\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Whenever he had met defeat!\n How few men would be deemed sublime\n \u00a0 \u00a0 By those whose hearts are moved to song\n If each sat grumbling every time\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His heart ached or his plans went wrong.\n \n How little there would be to praise\n \u00a0 \u00a0 How much to keep us plunged in gloom\n If each but waited all his days\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To hear the dreadful crack of doom!\n \u2019Tis well that men conceal despair\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When stubborn fate has used them ill;\n Why not, if you have woes to bear,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Assist by seeming hopeful still?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> How drear a place the world would be<br \/>\n     If all who fail to win success<br \/>\n Permitted all the rest to see<br \/>\n     The evidence of their distress!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-7066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-s-e-kiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066","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=7066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}