{"id":7085,"date":"2021-05-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2021-05-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T05:00:00","slug":"real-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/real-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-05-01\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, May 1, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n He sighed because it was his fate\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To earn the blessings he received;\n Because he was compelled to wait\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For opportunities he grieved.\n \n He mourned because he could not claim\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A certain lady for his own;\n He sadly sighed because his name\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In many quarters was unknown.\n \n He thought his fate was hard to bear\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Because he seldom got a rest;\n When he began to lose his hair\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A bitter sadness filled his breast.\n \n But when he lost his appetite\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And when good health was his no more\n He sadly wondered day and night\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Why he had ever grieved before.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He sighed because it was his fate<br \/>\n     To earn the blessings he received;<br \/>\n Because he was compelled to wait<br \/>\n     For opportunities he grieved.<\/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-7085","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\/7085","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=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}