{"id":7183,"date":"2021-06-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2021-06-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T05:00:00","slug":"concealment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/concealment\/","title":{"rendered":"Concealment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-06-06\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, June 6, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n When Arabella talks to Jim\n She thinks, while glancing up at him,\n \u201cThere is a man of heart and brain\n Worth any lass\u2019 while to gain.\n I\u2019d like to have him in my care\n And fix his neckties and his hair.\u201d\n Yet this is all she has to say:\n \u201cIt is a pleasant day, today.\u201d\n \n And Jim, with feelings all intense,\n Thinks, \u201cThere\u2019s a girl of real sense,\n And pretty as the flowers in spring,\n And sweet of voice as birds that sing.\n There\u2019s not a chance that she could be\n Attracted by a chap like me.\u201d\n So this is all Jim has to say:\n \u201cIt IS a pleasant day, today.\u201d\n \n So, as the years too swift have fled,\n They\u2019ve left their real thought unsaid.\n It is the custom of mankind\n A timid refuge thus to find\n When some frank sentiment intrudes,\n A refuge in dull platitudes.\n We slight the best of life and say\n \u201cIt is a pleasant day, today.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> When Arabella talks to Jim<br \/>\n She thinks, while glancing up at him,<br \/>\n \u201cThere is a man of heart and brain<br \/>\n Worth any lass\u2019 while to gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","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=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}