{"id":7216,"date":"2021-06-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2021-06-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T05:00:00","slug":"the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-06-19\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, June 19, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Henry Howland.<\/em>\n \n\n Our troubles have increased of late;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Alas, how problems vex us;\n It seems as if a stubborn fate\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Delighted to perplex us.\n \n We fondly wished our son to be\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A man of deepest knowledge;\n For years we\u2019ve struggled patiently\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To pay his way through college.\n \n We\u2019ve watched his progress with a pride\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That fully has repaid us\n For all the luxuries denied\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And all the care he\u2019s made us.\n \n But by a problem hard and grim\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We are at present weighted;\n We don\u2019t know what to do with him\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Since Willie\u2019s graduated.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Our troubles have increased of late;<br \/>\n Alas, how problems vex us;<br \/>\n It seems as if a stubborn fate<br \/>\n Delighted to perplex us.<\/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":[161],"class_list":["post-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216","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=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}