{"id":7228,"date":"2021-06-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2021-06-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T05:00:00","slug":"an-optimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/an-optimist\/","title":{"rendered":"An Optimist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-06-23\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, June 23, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Samuel Minturn Peck.<\/em>\n \n\n \u201cI cannot answer yes,\u201d quoth she,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As I knelt down to sue;\n \u201cOne heart is not enough, you see,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For all who come to woo.\u201d\n \n \u201cAlas!\u201d I cried, \u201cmy fate is rough!\u201d\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Then flashed a thought profound:\n \u201cStill - though you have not hearts enough -\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ve arms to go around!\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cI cannot answer yes,\u201d quoth she,<br \/>\n     As I knelt down to sue;<br \/>\n \u201cOne heart is not enough, you see,<br \/>\n     For all who come to woo.\u201d<\/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":[272],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-samuel-minturn-peck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228","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=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}