{"id":7070,"date":"2021-04-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2021-04-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T05:00:00","slug":"the-boy-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-boy-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-04-25\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, April 25, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n He never wrote upon the walls,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He never did a window break,\n Through him the cat ne\u2019er lifted squalls\n \u00a0 \u00a0 So loud they might the dead awake.\n His little sister never felt\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A strand of hair pulled from her crown,\n Upon her cheek no blows were dealt,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He ne\u2019er was known to push her down.\n His mother\u2019s days were free from care,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His father never used the strap,\n I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll not find anywhere\n \u00a0 \u00a0 So well behaved a little chap.\n \n You ask me what his name could be\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And where this youngster doth reside?\n I can not answer that. You see,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I have a secret to confide:\n Imagination fondly drew\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The type of boy these lines describe,\n Too free from faults to be quite true\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To life and all the boyhood tribe.\n And maybe it were better so,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That none exists so wondrous good,\n For if he did, I almost know\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We\u2019d scarcely love him as we should.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He never wrote upon the walls,<br \/>\n     He never did a window break,<br \/>\n Through him the cat ne\u2019er lifted squalls<br \/>\n     So loud they might the dead awake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070","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=7070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}