{"id":7247,"date":"2021-07-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7247"},"modified":"2021-07-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:00:00","slug":"the-sage-and-the-troubadour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-sage-and-the-troubadour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sage and the Troubadour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-07-02\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>Evening Star, July 2, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Philander Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n The person who always insists on the facts\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Met a troubadour singing his lay;\n His mood was not rude with intent to intrude\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As he caroled so light and so gay.\n And this was the song that came floating so free\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As he journeyed along without care:\n \u201cOh, the Nightingale Sweetly is Singing to Me\n     As the Violets Perfume the Air.\u201d\n \n Said the person who thinks in statistics and tracts,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cI am sorry that I must arise\n And say that your lay is from truth far away.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It fills me with grief and surprise.\n For the violet, when it is blossoming wild,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 No perfume possesses; that\u2019s clear.\n And it\u2019s proved by the data which I have compiled\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That we do not have nightingales here.\u201d\n \n So, the person who strictest adherence exacts\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To the precepts by learning laid down\n Told the throng how the song was essentially wrong\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And should not be allowed in the town.\n We heard with respect and we thanked him full loud\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For the lesson he gave us that day\u2014\n And then we forgot him and followed the crowd\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That danced to the troubadour\u2019s lay.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The person who always insists on the facts<br \/>\n     Met a troubadour singing his lay;<br \/>\n His mood was not rude with intent to intrude<br \/>\n     As he caroled so light and so gay.<\/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-7247","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\/7247","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=7247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}