{"id":7108,"date":"2021-05-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2021-05-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:00:00","slug":"the-bravest-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-bravest-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bravest Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/1913-05-10\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\"><em>New York Tribune, May 10, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Joaquin Miller.<\/em>\n \n\n The bravest battle that ever was fought\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Shall I tell you where and when?\n On the maps of the world you will find it not;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It was fought by the mothers of men.\n \n Nay, not with cannon or battle shot\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With sword or nobler pen\n Nay, not with eloquent word or thought\n \u00a0 \u00a0 From mouths of wonderful men.\n \n But deep in a walled-up woman\u2019s heart\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of woman that would not yield\n But patiently, silently bore her part\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Lo! there in that battlefield\n \n No marshaling troop, no bivouac song\n \u00a0 \u00a0 No banner to gleam and wave;\n And oh these battles they last so long\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 From babyhood to the grave!\n \n Yet, faithful still as a bridge of stars\n \u00a0 \u00a0 She fights in her walled-up town\u2014\n Fights on and on in the endless wars\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Then silent, unseen\u2014goes down.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The bravest battle that ever was fought<br \/>\n     Shall I tell you where and when?<br \/>\n On the maps of the world you will find it not;<br \/>\n     It was fought by the mothers of men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-7108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tribune","category-newspapers","tag-joaquin-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108","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=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}